Pere Ariza-Montobbio

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the agronomic and economic viability and livelihood impacts of Jatropha curcas plantations on private farms in Tamil Nadu, India and found that the crop is currently unviable and its potential viability is strongly determined by water access.

TL;DR: The authors deconstruct the shaky premises of the dominant discourse of Jatropha as a pro-poor and pro-wasteland development crop, a discourse that paints a win-win picture between poverty alleviation, natural resource regeneration, and energy security goals.

TL;DR: An important gap is suggested between current QoL’s indicators considered by public policies and the means ofQoL defined by people, suggesting a set of plausible local indicators useful to achieve a balance between top-down and bottom-up approaches for the local public policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a Critical Theory perspective, informed by Herbert Marcuse's work, to study the discourse concerning wind energy siting in Catalonia, Spain, and give particular attention to how tensions between potentially conflicting sustainability objectives are addressed and by whom.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the current profiles of electricity generation and consumption in relation to sociodemographic variables related to the use of time and land across the territory of Catalonia, Spain.