Tree plantation extractivism in Chile : territories, fundamental human needs, and resistance

• Main Author: Mora-Motta, Alejandro (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
• Series: Routledge studies of the extractive industries and sustainable development.
• Subjects: Commercial forests > Chile.; Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > Chile.; Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects > Chile.; Human ecology > Chile.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781003392521; 1003392520; 9781003857921; 1003857922; 9781003857884; 1003857884; 9781032488561; 9781032491875
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile. The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a mo...