Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities : Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

1. Introduction. Contextualising the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-ecological Inequalities; Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor -- Part 1 Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production -- 2. Global Inequalities and Extractive Knowledge Production in the Bioeconomy; Maria Backhouse -- 3. Neoliberal Bioeconomies? Co-constructing Markets and Natures; Kean Birch -- 4. Tools of Extraction or Means of Speculation? Making Sense of Patents in the Bioeconomy; Veit Braun -- 5. Bioenergy, Thermodynamics and Inequalities; Larry Lohmann -- Part 2 Bioeconomy Policies and Agendas in Different Countries -- 6. Knowledge, Research, and Germany’s Bioeconomy: Inclusion and Exclusion in Bioenergy Funding Policies; Rosa Lehmann -- 7. A Player Bigger than its Size. Finnish Bioeconomy and Forest Policy in the Era of Global Climate Politics; Tero Toivanen -- 8. Sugar-Cane Bioelectricity in Brazil: Reinforcing the Meta-Discourses of Bioeconomy and Energy Transition; Selena Herrera, John Wilkinson -- Part 3 Reconfigurations and Continuities of Social-ecological Inequalities in Rural Areas -- 9. Buruh Siluman: The Making and Maintaining of Cheap and Disciplined Labour on Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia; Hariati Sinaga -- 10. Superexploitation in Bio-based Industries. The Case of Oil Palm and Labour Migration in Malaysia; Janina Puder -- 11. Sugarcane Industry Expansion and Changing Rural Labour Regimes in Mato Grosso do Sul (2000–2016); Kristina Lorenzen -- 12. Territorial Changes around Biodiesel. A Case Study of North-western Argentina -- Virginia Toledo López -- Part 4 The Extractive Side of the Global Biomass Sourcing -- 13. Contested Resources and South-South Inequalities. What Sino-Brazilian Trade Means for the “Low-Carbon” Bioeconomy; Fabricio Rodríguez -- 14. Sustaining the European Bioeconomy. The Material Base and Extractive Relations of a Bio-based EU-Economy; Malte Lühmann -- 15. Towards an Extractivist Bioeconomy? The Risk of Deepening Agrarian Extractivism when Promoting Bioeconomy in Argentina; Anne Tittor.