Extractivism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Extractivism is a noun meaning Extractivist practices in the management of natural resources.
Meaning
Extractivist practices in the management of natural resources.
Example Sentences
Industrial extractivism (a definition that Vidal would extend to include modern intensive agriculture) has contributed to the recent freefall in bird, mammal and amphibian numbers.
Extractivism, a term born of anti-colonial struggle and thought in the Americas, is a mode of accumulation based on hyper-extraction with lopsided benefits and costs: concentrated mass-scale removal of resources primarily for export, with benefits largely accumulating far from the sites of extraction.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include resourceism, ecoactivism, anthroparchy, dominionism, conservation, comanagement.
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