Biodiesel, an environmentally degradable and renewable biofuel derived from organic
matter, has exhibited its capacity as a viable and sustainable substitute for traditional diesel …

Facing criticism that Indonesia's oil palm industry causes deforestation, government and
industry representatives have highlighted the role of oil palm in improving the livelihoods of …

The expansion of capitalism produces contests over the definition and control of resources.
On a global scale, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia,
and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism" possession is nine-tenths of …

The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has generated a large and growing
number of protests against palm oil companies over, mainly, access to land. So far, these …

Recent global modelling studies suggest a decline of long-distance trade in energy carriers
in future global renewable energy systems, compared to today's fossil fuel based system. In …

This introduction to the collection seeks to determine to what extent the specialist regional
literature on agrarian and environmental transformations in Southeast Asia has responded …

The palm oil industry is increasingly certifying its activities as “sustainable,”“responsible,”
and “conflict-free.” This trend does not represent a breakthrough toward better governance …

Social-ecological transformations are necessarily political. That is, they are shaped by
intentional interventions to steer societies and its metabolism but also by conflicts and power …