eprintid: 10192897
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 699
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datestamp: 2024-05-31 08:50:56
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Klingler, Michael
creators_name: Ameli, Nadia
creators_name: Rickman, Jamie
creators_name: Schmidt, Johannes
title: Large-scale green grabbing for wind and solar photovoltaic development in Brazil
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F34
keywords: Energy policy, Political economy of energy
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Large-scale wind and solar photovoltaic infrastructures are rapidly expanding in Brazil. These low-carbon technologies can exacerbate land struggles rooted in historical inequities in landownership, lack of regulation and weak governance. Here we trace how green grabbing—that is, the large-scale appropriation and control of (undesignated) public lands, both formally legal and illicit, for the development of wind and solar photovoltaic power—has developed in Brazil from 2000 to 2021. We find that global investors and owners, mainly from Europe, are involved in 78% of wind and 96% of solar photovoltaic parks, occupying 2,148 km2 and 102 km2 of land, respectively. We also show that land privatization is the prevalent land tenure regime for securing land, indicating substantial transformations of prior (undesignated) public and common lands. We conclude that green grabbing is a persistent, critical phenomenon in Brazil, requiring transparency and vigilant monitoring of land claims and tenure modifications.
date: 2024-06
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01346-2
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2276832
doi: 10.1038/s41893-024-01346-2
lyricists_name: Ameli, Nadia
lyricists_id: NAMEL06
actors_name: Ameli, Nadia
actors_id: NAMEL06
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Nature Sustainability
volume: 7
pagerange: 747-757
issn: 2398-9629
citation:        Klingler, Michael;    Ameli, Nadia;    Rickman, Jamie;    Schmidt, Johannes;      (2024)    Large-scale green grabbing for wind and solar photovoltaic development in Brazil.                   Nature Sustainability , 7    pp. 747-757.    10.1038/s41893-024-01346-2 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01346-2>.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192897/1/Green-grabbing-BRA_accepted-manuscriptf_NATSUSTAIN-23083074C_2024-04-08.pdf