Climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict: towards a landscape-based and collaborative action research agenda
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Recent research has highlighted the conflict potential of both land deals and climate change mitigation projects, but generally the two phenomena are studied separately and the focus is limited to discrete cases of displacement or contested claims. We argue that research with a broader “landscape” perspective is needed to better understand the complex social, ecological and institutional interactions taking place in sites of land-based climate change projects (such as biofuel production or forest conservation) and large-scale investments (plantations or mines). Research that co-produces knowledge and capacity with local actors, and informs advocacy at multiple policy scales, will contribute better to preventing, resolving or transforming conflicts.
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So-called sustainable development and climate change mitigation projects are leading to land grabbing, displacement, dispossession, ecological destruction, repression and elite profiteering.
“So-called sustainable development and climate change mitigation projects are leading to land grabbing, displacement, dispossession, ecological destruction, repression and elite profiteering”
From The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction (2024) · cites this paper as Hunsberger et al., 2017
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Pohl, C., Rist, S., Zimmermann, A., Fry, P., Gurung, G. S., Schneider, F., Speranza, C. I., Kiteme, B., Boillat, S., Serrano, E., et al. (2010) · Science and Public Policy · doi:10.3152/030234210x496628 · Cited by 555 · see citing works
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The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction
Dunlap, A., Verweijen, J., & Tornel, C. (2024) · Journal of Political Ecology · doi:10.2458/jpe.6131 · Cited by 126 · see citing works
“…are leading to land grabbing, displacement, dispossession, ecological destruction, repression and elite profiteering (see Dunlap & Fairhead, 2014; Hunsberger et al. , 2017; Franco & Borras, 2019; Mirumachi et al. , 2020; Temper et al. , 2020; Larsen, et al. , 2022; Andreucci, et al ., 2023;…”
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- Authors
- Hunsberger, C., Corbera, E., Borras, S. M., Franco, J. C., Woods, K., Work, C., de la Rosa, R., Eang, V., Herre, R., Kham, S. S., Park, C., Sokheng, S., Spoor, M., Thein, S., Aung, K. T., Thuon, R., & Vaddhanaphuti, C.
- Affiliations
- Western University (CA)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- International Institute of Social Studies (NL)
- Agrarian Justice Programme of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of International Studies (US)
- MOSAIC Research Fellow, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- ICCO Southeast Asia Regional Office, Bali, Indonesia
- Equitable Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- FIAN (FoodFirst Information and Action Network), Cologne, Germany
- Metta Development Foundation (MM)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
- Community Development for Peace and Sustainability, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Land Core Group (LCG), Yangon, Myanmar
- Paung Ku, Yangon, Myanmar
- Chiang Mai University (TH)
- Corresponding author
- Hunsberger, Carol
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-03
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 305-324
- ISSN
- 0225-5189 (ISSN-L)
- 2158-9100
- OpenAlex
- W2619988136
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 6
- FWCI
- 33.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- pure.eur.nl
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- NWO and DFID (CoCooN - Conflict and Cooperation in the Managemen)
- United Kingdom Department for International Development
- UAB-Banco de Santander Talent Retention Programme
- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (PCIG09-GA-2011-294234)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Keywords
- climate change mitigation, land grabbing, land disputes, landscape perspective, collaborative action research, knowledge co-production, biofuel production, forest conservation, plantations, mining, displacement, conflict prevention
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