全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Constructing landscapes of value: Capitalist investment for the acquisition of marginal or unused land. The case of Tanzania.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.10.002
	Constructing landscapes of value: Capitalist investment for the acquisition of marginal or unused land. The case of Tanzania.
	Exner A; Bartels LE; Windhaber M; Fritz S; See L; Politti E; Hochleithner S
发表日期	2015
出处	Land Use Policy 42: 652-663
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	The current global wave of land acquisition . variously debated as land grabbing or investment in land . is promoted by the World Bank and the FAO as creating win-win-situations for local populations and investors alike. Common policy recommendations suggest expanding the production of export crops, by making use of marginal or unused land. Considerable potentials for such an expansion are assumed. Taking Tanzania as a case study, the evidence for such types of land is assessed by using a broad range of statistics. We will argue firstly, that the terms marginal and unused land serve as a manipulative terminology for the benefit of attempts to commercially valorize and commodify African landscapes, from biofuel to large-scale food production and tourism. However, they relate to different rationalities of domination. Unused land refers to a state-bureaucratic narrative, which excludes user groups deemed irrelevant for national development, while marginal land refers to a capitalist-economic narrative that excludes what is not profitable. Secondly, the terms are analyzed as categories central for state simplification of social relations attached to land. Modelling of these land use categories based on remote sensing is an attempt to compensate weak state capacities to enhance the legibility of the landscape by constructing it as a landscape of commercial value.
主题	Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM)
关键词	Biofuels Marginal land Unused land Land grab Nature conservation Tanzania
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/11558/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/130431
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Exner A,Bartels LE,Windhaber M,et al. Constructing landscapes of value: Capitalist investment for the acquisition of marginal or unused land. The case of Tanzania.. 2015.