Knowing the subterranean
Land grabbing, oil palm, and divergent expertise in Indonesia's peat soil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4140648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J E Goldstein (0000-0002-0272-0445, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 754-770 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x15599787 |
| OpenAlex | W2283351847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 49 |
So-called global land grabbing is not only a response to socio-ecological shifts but can also generate substantial subterranean and atmospheric biogeochemical changes. As land acquisitions for agricultural development play out in Indonesia, the country's peatlands have been a key to rapid and expansive oil palm development. Oil palm production in tropical peatlands, however, requires soil drainage through hydrological engineering, which stimulates carbon dioxide emissions. Research on the quantities and mechanisms of those carbon emissions has been central to generating scientific consensus stipulating peatland conservation and rehabilitation, rather than agricultural development. Yet, alternate scientific knowledge networks have generated what I call divergent expertise, which supports a peatland management strategy of continued development despite ecological risk. This divergent expertise raises questions of how land is made suitable for large-scale acquisition and investment for agricultural development, and how to manage the biogeochemical crises that can ensue when land is incorporated into land grab regimes
Agricultural land · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Biogeochemical cycle · Biology · Earth science · Land grabbing · Land management · Peat · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability · Ecology · Geology
Western Agricultural Investors in Russia and Ukraine
Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene
Amphibious Land Repair
Pyropolitics and the Production of Territory
The institutional fit of peatland governance in Indonesia
The Volumetric Political Forest
The complex interplay of local communities and global initiatives in Peatland management
The making of India's Covid-19 disaster
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico
Artivism for Cleaner Air? An Exploration of the Artistic Representation of “Haze” in Southeast Asia
Making boundaries, disputing land
Toward a Relational Materiality of Soils
Science in the court
Hidden challenges for conservation and development along the Trans-Papuan economic corridor
Contrasting communications of sustainability science in the media coverage of palm oil agriculture on tropical peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Sustainable development of carbon sinks? Lessons from three types of peatland partnerships in Indonesia
Evaluating bundles of interventions to prevent peat-fires in Indonesia
Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface
Perceptions across scales of governance and the Indonesian peatland fires
Persistent farmland imaginaries
The relational state and local struggles in the mapping of land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Experts and resource users split over solutions to peatland fires
‘Seasons of the Anthropocene’
Actors, spatiotemporal changes, and (un)sustainable practices in community peatland management
Beyond slash‐and‐burn
Seasonality in the Anthropocene
Governing the ungovernable
The political ecology of asset manager capitalism and the harmful fiction of universal ownership
More data, more problems? Incompatible uncertainty in Indonesia’s climate change mitigation projects
Towards a political ecology of “global peatlands”
Improving strategies for sustainability of short-term agricultural utilization on degraded peatlands in Central Kalimantan
Adding (bio)fuel to the fire
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency
Time bomb or gold mine? Policy, sustainability and media representations of tropical peatlands in Malaysia
Landscapes in transition
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values
Palm oil not polar bears
Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking
The evolving borderland of energy geographies
Territorializing spatial data
In Search of Fire Villains
Envisioning tropical environments
The regional identity politics of India's new land wars
Tracking penguins, sensing petroleum
Palm oil, power, and participation
L'intensification écologique et la déforestation au Brésil
Making soil in the Plantationocene
Infrastructure projects and rural politics in northern Kenya
What happened when the land grab came to Southeast Asia
Knowing Nature
Nature's Matrix
Current and future CO 2 emissions from drained peatlands in Southeast Asia
Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool
Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997
Remotely sensed evidence of tropical peatland conversion to oil palm
Empires of Forestry
Public concerns about transboundary haze
The predictive state
The Future of Environmental Expertise
The Potential Impact of Regional Climate Change on Fire Weather in the United States
Producing vertical territory
Power to make land dispossession acceptable
Mapping knowledge controversies
What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment
The new rurality
Runaway Fires, Smoke-Haze Pollution, and Unnatural Disasters in Indonesia
The Political Construction of Wasteland
Remote Sensibilities
Governing Global Land Deals
Rethinking Land Grab Ontology
Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change
Governing Disaster
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space
Frontier constellations
The politics of evidence
Green Grabbing
Trajectories of land acquisition and enclosure
Marginal lands
Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms
New frontiers of land control
Centering labor in the land grab debate
How not to think of land-grabbing
Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics
Fire, People and Pixels
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |