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Forest of silicon: Low-carbon energy and green colonialism in French Guiana

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Uneasy tensions in research on local responses to large-scale solar plants: A critical and integrative review

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Gobernanza del Litio en la región Puno: Oportunidades y Desafíos

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Socio-ecological controversies between desalination, urbanization, and green mining transition

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The Materialities of Energy Transition in Mountain Territories: Towards a Critical Approach

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Chapitre 8. Transitions écologiques

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Responsabilidad Social Empresarial, ritual y extractivismo

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Chapitre 5. L’extractivisme en débat

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Vers une nouvelle carte énergétique de l’Amérique latine

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Equity and Justice should underpin the discourse on Tipping PointsPreprint

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Comment on egusphere-2023-1455

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‘My body tells me to stay here’: Materiality, identity and everyday politics in Wentang Town, China

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Comment on egusphere-2023-1455

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Beyond Technology and Toward Sustainable Trajectories for Mining Territories: A Challenge for the Present

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Conclusion

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Constructing Resources for the Transition: Geo-legal Approaches to Lithium-Bearing Brines in South America’s Salt Flats

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Green grabbing implications for human rights, equity and the ecological transition

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La trajectoire du Salar d'Atacama comme laboratoire de l'extraction du lithium en Amérique du Sud : la relation entre les communautes, l'exploitation miniere et l'environnement (1960-2023)

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Leveraging tensions of the triple transition for future-fit energy pathways: Interdisciplinary analysis and response strategies

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Unraveling lithium dreams: Emergent imaginaries and discourses in the Altiplano’s new extractive frontier

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From the lithium triangle to Ghana: State participation, industrial policy, and the governance of critical minerals in developing countries

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The lithium fix: The contradictions of green developmentalism in the Andes

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Dependent development at the energy transition: placing lithium imaginaries in Neoliberal and Contentious Peru

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Conflicting extractive futures: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of lithium mining in Portugal

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The energy transition and lithium extraction in Chile: decolonising resource-making in the Salar de Atacama basin

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The dark side of the energy transition: Extractivist violence, energy (in)justice and lithium mining in Portugal

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Energy transition and “green” extractivism around the lithium industry. New socio-territorial conflict in northern Argentina

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A Just energy Transition: Between Global Demands and local challenges. A look at lithium extraction policies in Latin America

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Lithium-based energy transition through Chilean and Australian miningscapes

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