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Before writing this paper I asked myself what Professor Martín Mateo would think today of the slogan "Empty Spain" and its environmental connotations. And to reflect on this, two of his books came to mind, "The chicken with the cement eggs" and "The green energy of biomass". And it is on this basis that I have shaped this text, the aim of which is simply to reflect on the formula that we are going to choose to "fill" this Spain that is not yet fallow and in which it is essential to understand that forest areas are the fundamental element of the ecological structure of the European Union and must be integrated into the rest of the sectoral policies. The question I am asking myself and which it is a question of responding to is whether we are being fair to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, the search for natural resources has reconfigured the geopolitical map through new political-economic alliances. Regional studies identify the South American continent as the scene for a potential trade dispute between two poles: the emerging BRICS and the old industrialized countries. The Colombian region known as the highland plains is the epicenter of new economic investments by domestic and international stakeholders who have the intention of developing agribusiness projects, among which promote the biofuels production at the center of the climate change debate. This paper presents research results on the topic of the Territorial Vulnerability Index, bringing to light some of the knots encountered and that legitimize material transformations alongside discursive productions that shape and design the territory. Part of this paper was presented at the I Seminario Internacional Novas Territorialidades e Desenvolvimento Sustentavel, held in Brazil in 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]