Abstract (may include machine translation)
Despite their negative social and environmental consequences, claims to land for resource extraction are dominantly asserted under conditions of land-use competition. The 'success' of the extractive expansion relies on very specific labor arrangements. Through dispossession and unfulfilled promises of long-term employment, an overabundance of labor (or employment gap) is generated at extractive sites. Poverty is exploited in order to sustain business as usual: environmental degradation, low average wages and high wage inequality, and abysmal working conditions. In resolving global land-use competition for sustainability transformations, it is necessary to address labor arrangements as a mechanism through which the claim to land for resource extraction is asserted.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1961 |
Journal | Sustainability |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 11 Jun 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Abundance of labor
- Appropriation
- Claims to land
- Dispossession
- Employment
- Resources