Energy transitions and the global land rush: Ultimate drivers and persistent consequences

By A. Scheidel, Alevgul H. Sorman. 2012

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Subfields: Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Water Science and Technology

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The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “LSLAs are carried out in various ways, with a variety of proximate and distal causes (Messerli, Giger, Dwyer, Breu, & Eckert, 2014; Scheidel & Sorman, 2012), and are often responsible for the transformation and redefinition of land regimes through both formal and informal routes (Adnan, 2013;…”
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation. (2016, background): “…and non-food agricultural commodities (Zoomers, 2010; Borras et al., 2015) and financial derivates (Will et al., 2016), energy system transitions (Scheidel and Sorman, 2012), biodiversity conservation (Meyfroidt et al., 2016), climate change responses (Davis et al., 2015), and geopolitics…”
The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome (2018, background): “A variety of indicators have been used to capture either one or more dimensions of water scarcity (Falkenmark et al., 1989; Shiklomanov, 1991; Raskin et al., 1997; Seckler et al., 1998; Alcamo et al., 2000; Vorosmarty et al., 2000; Sullivan et al., 2003).”
Solar power, state power, and the politics of energy transition in pre-Saharan Morocco (2016, background): “Scholars have identified this demand as a driver of the emerging land grab, and the demand will only increase as renewables with large territorial footprints become more widely adopted (Cotula, 2012; Scheidel and Sorman, 2012).”
Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “A major driver is the increased demand for food and energy of growing populations worldwide (Scheidel & Sorman, 2012).”
Assessing vulnerabilities and limits in the transition to renewable energies: Land requirements under 100% solar energy scenarios (2017, background): “Although concerns over the potential land scarcity provoked by a full transition to RES have been already pointed out from a theoretical point of view [51,78,84], currently available energy models are unable to properly capture the trade-offs between energy and food security, as well as biodiversity”