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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Agribusiness and Green power - the benefits for whom? A case study from Tanzania.
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Ingår i: World Congress on Environmental History, Abstract volume. Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August 2009..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Agribusiness and Green power - the benefits for whom? A case study from Tanzania Wilhelm Östberg1 and Gunilla A. Olsson2 1 Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, SE -106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 School of Global Studies, P.O. Box 700, Göteborg University, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden The current excited interest in alternatives to fossil fuel is based on the growing insights of the rapid decrease of the global stores of fossil resources for energy production. This has led to a global race for discovering and developing new energy sources – with the dual goal of using renewable resources and to decrease CO2 emissions. Large-scale plantations of rapid growing crops suitable for processing to ethanol or bio-diesel are established especially in tropical and sub-tropical environments. Land, arable and non-arable, has become an expensive commodity linked to high expectations on conveying wealth and large economic benefits to the involved groups. Investors from all parts of the world are searching for suitable areas that can be transformed to bio-energy plantations. This happens in Tanzania where large-scale plantations of sugar cane for ethanol production for the European market, is under way put in order by a foreign company and with encouragement from the Tanzanian government. The land was sold very cheap by the government with the expectation that this enterprise would contribute to positive economic development for the country. It is stated that the new land use would be very profitable since this dryland is unproductive and deserted by humans. This paper presents a study on the implications for local communities and their possibilities to sustainable development when being involved in the globalised market of the production of biofuel. The current and historical land use in this region based on documents and interviews of local communities is surveyed with specific focus on the resource use in local agro-ecosystems. The influence of the new enterprise with its related activities on the livelihoods and resource needs of local peoples are studied. The production of green biofuels is related to the questions of sustainable development for different societies and at different time and spatial scales.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951
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Biofuels in East Africa
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Ingår i: Biofuel International Workshop, Summary of presentations. NTNU, Trondheim, 2-5 February, 2009. Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU..
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- Jonsson, B. G., et al.
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Skogspolitiken hotar biologiska mångfalden
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Ingår i: Dagens Nyheter. ; 14 april
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ledande svenska forskare varnar för att det nationella naturarvet äventyras: Vi skäms över våra beslutsfattares likgiltighet för miljön. Den svenska skogen har förvandlats till en jättelik odlingsyta. Där förr otaliga arter levde samman i harmoni dominerar numera helt gran, tall och inplanterade främmande trädslag. Denna skogsodling utgör ett hot mot den biologiska mångfalden vilket strider mot riksdagens miljökvalitetsmål. Den svenska skogspolitiken vilar officiellt på att produktion av skogsråvara och miljö är likvärdiga mål. Men i praktiken har produktionen satts i första rummet. Bortåt 2 000 skogslevande arters överlevnad hotas på grund av den förda politiken. Vi är djupt oroade och skäms över att det rika Sverige inte arbetar effektivt för att nå nationella och internationella miljömål. Det skriver 14 ledande forskare i bland annat växtekologi, ekologisk zoologi och botanik.
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- Morf, Andrea, 1968, et al.
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Local participation in conservation management begets empowerment?
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Ingår i: Internationl Conference for Human Ecology, Society for Human Ecological. Abstract volume. Manchester, UK, June 29- July 3, 2009.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local participation in conservation management begets empowerment? Andrea Morf and Gunilla A. Olsson, Human Ecology, School of Global Studies. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Email: gunilla.olsson@globalstudies.gu.se andrea.morf@marecol.gu.se The involvement of local stakeholders in resource management is a current imperative in international conventions such as CBD and in the Rio-declaration (UNCED 1992). However, the amount of influence by the stakeholders in the management plans and processes, is not granted and often unclear. The expectations from stakeholders on outcome from such processes are diverging. The current system for resource management is not constructed to include bottom up processes and the new initiatives for management lead to informal shift of power which poses new challenges for the legitimization of decisions. The involvement in the process is based on voluntary engagement which causes challenges in maintaining continuity. Until lately Sweden had applied a top-down approach to resource management but around the millennium shift there was a change towards participatory processes for conservation management. This paper is an overview of six pilot case studies on participative efforts in conservation management from different ecosystems in Sweden. The results of the processes of adaptive co-management, are interpreted in terms of the degree of sustainable development with respect of empowerment of participants in local communities, effects on economic development and environment. Problems and challenges of the process are discussed and related to scales in time and space.
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