Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

James Fairhead is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex and also chairs the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth.

'Green grabbing' is an emerging process of deep and growing significance, whether linked to biodiversity conservation, biocarbon sequestration, biofuels, ecosystem services, ecotourism or 'offsets'. This collection explores these new ways of valuing, commodifying and appropriating nature, and the implications for people, ecologies and livelihoods.

1. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature? 2. Enclosing the Global Gommons: The Convention on Biological Diversity and Green Grabbing 3. Green Grabs and Biochar: Revaluing African Soils and Farming in the New Carbon Economy 4. Green Multiculturalism: Articulations of Ethnic and Environmental Politics in a Colombian 'Black Community' 5. Conservation, Green/Blue Grabbing and Accumulation by Dispossession in Tanzania 6. Green Pretexts: Ecotourism, Neoliberal Conservation and Land Grabbing in Tayrona National Natural Park, Colombia 7. Tourism and the Politics of the Global Land Grab in Tanzania: Markets, Appropriation and Recognition 8. Marginal Lands: The Role of Remote Sensing in Constructing Landscapes for Agrofuel Development 9. Green Grabbing at the 'Pharm' Gate: Rosy Periwinkle Production in Southern Madagascar 10. Inverting the Impacts: Mining, Conservation and Sustainability Claims near the Rio Tinto/QMM Ilmenite Mine in Fort Dauphin, Southeast Madagascar 11. Taming the Jungle, Saving the Maya Forest: Sedimented Counterinsurgency Practices in Contemporary Guatemalan Conservation 12. Wild Property and its Boundaries: on Wildlife Policy and Rural Implications in South Africa 13. Trajectories of Land Acquisition and Enclosure: Development Schemes, Virtual Land Grabs, and Green Acquisitions in Indonesia's Outer Islands 14. The Potential Perils of Forest Carbon Contracts for Developing Countries: Cases from Africa 15. Ordenamento Territorial: Neo-developmentalism and the Struggle for Territory in the Lower Brazilian Amazon 16. Why Green Grabs Don't Work in Papua New Guinea