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Resource Peripheries in the Global EconomyReproducing the Resource Periphery: Resource Regionalism in the European Union

Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy: Reproducing the Resource Periphery: Resource... [The chapter explores the reproduction of resource peripheries through a study on the raw materials policy of the European Union (EU). Established in the late 2000s, the raw materials policy has been mainly focused on non-renewable non-energy minerals. The policy has included the explicit goals of increasing the extraction of minerals in the EU territory and to secure the supply of raw materials from sources outside the EU. Paying attention to the spatial divisions these policy goals are creating, the chapter critically examines the EU’s raw materials policy as a multi-scalar undertaking, in which the main players are the European Commission, governmental organisations of the EU member states, industry interest groups, and the various administrative bodies of the European regions at a scale below the nation-state. There are political and economic actors in the regions who support the intensification of resource extraction as a part of their attempts to deal with the social and economic conditions in the regions. As a result, this agency produces and reproduces the regional identities as resource-based. The chapter specifically explores the ways in which such resource regionalism plays a role in the reproduction of resource peripheries.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Resource Peripheries in the Global EconomyReproducing the Resource Periphery: Resource Regionalism in the European Union

Part of the Economic Geography Book Series
Editors: Irarrázaval, Felipe; Arias-Loyola, Martín
Kotilainen, Juha
Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy — Oct 12, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84605-3
Pages
109 –123
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84606-0_6
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[The chapter explores the reproduction of resource peripheries through a study on the raw materials policy of the European Union (EU). Established in the late 2000s, the raw materials policy has been mainly focused on non-renewable non-energy minerals. The policy has included the explicit goals of increasing the extraction of minerals in the EU territory and to secure the supply of raw materials from sources outside the EU. Paying attention to the spatial divisions these policy goals are creating, the chapter critically examines the EU’s raw materials policy as a multi-scalar undertaking, in which the main players are the European Commission, governmental organisations of the EU member states, industry interest groups, and the various administrative bodies of the European regions at a scale below the nation-state. There are political and economic actors in the regions who support the intensification of resource extraction as a part of their attempts to deal with the social and economic conditions in the regions. As a result, this agency produces and reproduces the regional identities as resource-based. The chapter specifically explores the ways in which such resource regionalism plays a role in the reproduction of resource peripheries.]

Published: Oct 12, 2021

Keywords: Minerals policy; Extractivism; Resource nationalism; Resource regionalism; Resource peripheries; European Union

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