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  • EROI (Energy Return on Energy Input/Invested)

    EROI (see Figure 1) stands for Energy Return on Energy Input/Invested. As availability of easily accessible fuels decreases, the concept of EROI becomes more relevant. Essentially, it asks – how …

  • Environmentalism of the poor

    Theories of ‘environmentalism of the poor’ (Guha and Martinez-Alier, 1997; Guha, 2000; Martínez-Alier, 2002) and ‘liberation ecology’ (Peet and Watts, 2004) have much in common with the branch of the …

  • Land grabbing

    Used in earlier times, the notion of land grabbing has had mainly political connotations, referring to the aggressive taking of land, often by military force, for the expansion of territorial …

  • Devlin Kuyek on the ProSavana project2

    Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying …