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Local Rights to Landscape in the Global Moral Economy of Carbon

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  • Dan van der Horst
  • Saskia Vermeylen

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Energy policy is an increasingly influential driver for landscape change in the Global North and in rapidly industrializing nations. The renewable energy industry and the large utilities installing wind farms are increasingly powerful actors in the global economy, and their activities are giving rise to a growing number of energy-landscape conflicts. Dependent on its characteristics with regards to the local landscape and the energy system it is part of, a renewable energy project can be portrayed as representing either development or conservation, and representing either globalization or localization. By interrogating landscape as a right, and carbon as a commodity, this paper reveals a number of tensions between abstract, aggregate and top-down narratives that are typical of a globalist discourse, and more localized, contextualized and individuated concerns. We draw attention to examples of reconciliation through customized entrepreneurial activities which manage to make sense of landscape, energy and climate issues at the local level, and which can be enacted and presented through both a globalist and a local narrative. These developments illustrate that hybridity of the local and the global is yielding differential rural energy geographies, consistent with Woods's (2007) concept of global countryside.

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  • Dan van der Horst & Saskia Vermeylen, 2011. "Local Rights to Landscape in the Global Moral Economy of Carbon," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(4), pages 455-470.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:36:y:2011:i:4:p:455-470
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2011.582941
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