scholarly journals Geopolítica dos recursos naturais estratégicos e questão agrária em Moçambique: a Vale S.A. e o extrativismo epidêmico

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
Guilherme Magon Whitacker
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Territorial Control

Moçambique possui algumas das maiores reservas de recursos naturais de potencial energético do mundo, sobretudo, carvão mineral, gás natural e, mais recentemente descoberto, petróleo, ainda que em menor quantidade. Os recursos naturais energéticos são, ou podem ser, instrumentos de poder ou armas políticas. Destarte, determinam e condicionam ações sobre o uso dos territórios. Território e poder determinam relações instáveis e motivam pretextos para o surgimento de práticas e estratégias geopolíticas e todo recurso é produto de uma relação de poder sobre determinado território. Assim, os recursos naturais energéticos são considerados estratégicos, produtos das relações sociais de produção e do poder que interfere diretamente na posse dos mesmos e controle territorial, o que envolve, também, a conflitualidade gerada a partir da intensificação da questão agrária resultante desses processos.Palavras–chave: Geopolítica dos recursos naturais, questão agrária, território, poder, MoçambiqueAbstract Mozambique has some of the world's largest reserves of natural resources with potential for energy, mainly mineral coal, natural gas and, more recently, oil, although in a smaller amount. Natural energy resources are or may be, instruments of power or political weapons. Thus, they determine and condition actions on the use of territories. Territory and power determine unstable relationships and motivate pretexts for the emergence of geopolitical practices and strategies, and every resource is the product of a power relationship over a given territory. Thus, natural energy resources are considered strategic, products of social relations of production and power that directly interfere in their possession and territorial control, which also involves the conflict generated by the intensification of the agrarian issue resulting from these processes.Keywords: Geopolitics of natural resources, agrarian question, territory, power, Mozambique

scholarly journals Systematic review of energy efficiency (E.E.). Basis for an alternative vision of E.E. in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-336
Author(s):  
Cristian Méndez-Rodríguez ◽  
Carlos F. Rengifo-Rodas ◽  
Juan Carlos Corrales-Muñoz ◽  
Apolinar Figueroa-Casas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
Research Questions

The management of natural resources, especially energy resources, is a challenge for today's society. For this reason, Energy Efficiency (E.E.) is considered as a key tool to promote economic growth, reduce the consumption of natural energy resources, and help to solve multiple environmental impacts. In this study, a systematic mapping of the literature concerning E.E. is carried out. Based on the research questions formulated in the systematic mapping, a knowledge gap is identified, which is that the problems linked to energy are not being addressed from a systemic and interdisciplinary paradigm. This calls for the development of methodological, sociological, and technological processes that allow understanding of E.E. from a systemic perspective. Finally, the basis for an alternative vision of E.E. in Colombia is proposed, which tends towards the sustainability and conservation of natural energy resources.

ANALYSIS OF WORLD RESERVES OF ENERGY RESOURCES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Tymchenko ◽  
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Nataliia Fialko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Energy Resources

The data on the proven world reserves of traditional energy resources, as well an approximate timing of their exhaustion, are considered. In accordance with the forecasts of recent decades the interval of exhaustion of the main types of fuel-energy resources (coal, oil, natural gas, uranium) according to various estimates, ranges from 50 to 150 years.

Natural resource and post-resource relations: the hierarchy of branches and the ratio of subjects

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deineha Maryna ◽  
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Marinich Volodymyr ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Forest Law ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the place of Natural Resource Law and post-resource branches of law in the legal system, proposes a hierarchy of these branches and outlines the relationship between the subjects of natural resource and post-resource relations. The subject of legal regulation of Natural Resource Law is defined as qualitatively homogeneous natural resource relations, consisting of the use and reproduction of natural resources – a legally defined part of the environment that have signs of natural origin and are in ecological relationship with the environment and with each other, can be used as a source of meeting human needs. All natural resources, as well as the relationship to their use and reproduction, are closely linked. This connection will always be inseparable and reciprocal. It is established that in the system of Natural Resource Law public relations regarding the use and reproduction of certain natural resources are in fact its subsectors and provide a differentiated approach to the environmentally sound use of each of the relevant natural resources. Natural Resource Law is not a conglomeration of land, water, forest and subsoil law, but their qualitative unity based on a single nature, factors of development and the internal structure of social relations. It is concluded that neither the long history of legislation, nor a significant amount of regulations that are sources of post-resource industries, are grounds for denying the inseparable and mutual connection of post-resource branches of law with each other and with Natural Resource Law and the objective need for separation independent branch of Natural Resource Law. Keywords: Natural Resource Law, land law, water law, forest law, subsoil law, faunal law, floristic law, natural resource relations, post-resource relations, legal system, branch of law

scholarly journals Expansion of renewable energy resources and energyconscious behaviour at the University of Szeged

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 03006 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Gyarmati
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The University

At the University of Szeged, as the greenest University of Hungary, the sustainability project is built on two pillars. One of them is based on events and communication campaigns held regularly for the University citizens to prompt environmental-conscious behaviour, whereas the other is built on technological developments and on the extensive use of renewable energy resources. Thus the development of built environment and social responsibility both support the adequacy to sustainability requirements. The spreading of the effective solutions to making more and more buildings of the University energy efficient, numerous investments using renewable energy are also responsible for the decrease of the natural energy use of the institution contrary to the fact that the number of the buildings of the University of Szeged is continually increasing. It can be stated that the University of Szeged is committed to using renewable energy which is taken into consideration of each investment planning. The following examples confirm it: using geothermal cascade system for heating and cooling of five university bulidings, solar panels on 24 builidings and a unique technology of using the heat of wastewater to cool and heat one of the main bulidings of the university, namely the Study and Information Centre.

Digging into “Resource War” Beliefs

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Le Billon
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
War Narratives ◽  
Water Wars ◽  
The Future ◽  
Widespread Belief ◽  
Multiple Causes

Water wars, oil conflicts and blood diamonds. Three terms reflecting a widespread belief that people fight over resources. Is this belief backed by evidence? What power relations does such a belief reflect and shape? If natural resources have a conspicuous presence in accounts of armed conflicts, the term ‘resource wars’ represents a gross oversimplification. Strategically deployed to prepare for ‘the wars of the future’ or to shame belligerents by exposing their ‘greedy’ motives, ‘resource war’ narratives often overlook the multiple causes of conflict and alternative options to militarized resource control. A main threat from ‘resource wars’ narratives is that they become self-fulfilling prophecies. As such, ‘resource wars’ studies should first be self-reflexive, and then strive to encompass the broad causes, specific historical contexts, and wide variety of effects that resource sectors have on the environment and social relations.

scholarly journals Gainful game, set-up, cyberworld

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Eldred
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Philosophical Orientation ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Set Up

There is a critique of capitalist market economy that consists in claiming not only that capitalist social relations are uncaring and alienating, nor only exploitative of the working class, but that the process of capitalist economy as a whole is a way of living, today globalized, that has gotten out of hand. Its essential nature is unmasked as a senseless circular movement that, besides ruthlessly exploiting natural resources, demeans human being itself and alienates it from the historical alternative of a purportedly authentic mode of human being rooted in collective, solidaric subjectivity. The present article offers an alternative hermeneutic cast for understanding capitalism as the gainful game that can serve as philosophical orientation in fighting for a free and fair social interplay in which the powers and abilities of free individuals are appropriately and reciprocally estimated and esteemed. This requires, first and foremost, seeing through the fetishisms inherent in the valorization of reified value that the mature Marx identified in his critiques of political economy as the essential nature of capitalism. Such critical insight is necessary for orientation also in today’s predicament of the ever more encroaching and ensnaring cyberworld.

scholarly journals Conflict, Environment and Transition: Colombia, Ecology and Tourism after Demobilisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill McClanahan ◽  
Tatiana Sanchez Parra ◽  
Avi Brisman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Corporate Interests ◽  
Peace Accords

In 2016, Colombia’s left-wing guerrilla FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo) began demobilisation. While demobilisation and the ensuing peace accords brought renewed hope that the country could imagine different political and social relations—and new ecological and economic conditions—multinational corporations filled the ‘void’ left by FARC-EP forces. Corporate interests in Colombia’s natural resources predated the demobilisation. However, extractive processes were restricted by the dynamics of the armed conflict. In 2016, immediately following the demobilisation, deforestation in Colombia jumped 44 per cent. In the transitional demobilisation period, huge swaths of the country were opened for economic development. Thus, while the environment is often a victim in armed conflict, in Colombia, conflict contributed to the preservation of some areas. Among the forms of development that have emerged in Colombia, ‘ecotourism’ has risen quickly to the fore. While ecotourism may offer some promise, it should be viewed with caution.

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