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The political economy of global tree plantation expansion: a review

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This contribution analyses the recent global expansion of different types of tree plantations. A literature review collates accounts from recent academic publications and by NGOs, and is accompanied by field research and interview observations about the causal processes, central features and likely futures of contemporary tree plantation expansion. I will analyse the political and spatial causalities explaining varieties and commonalities in expansion style and pace, with elaboration on the applied and empirical significance of these findings for peasant studies. The literature on environmental and developmental impacts of tree plantation expansion is also surveyed.
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2016611404
FWCI: 30.96
Cites: 86
Cited by: 100
Related to: 10