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What is missing in the mounting literature on globalization is a focused theoretical foundation with parallel empirical examinations of global structures and their environmental consequences. The articles in this volume examine how the world-economy and related non-economic forms of global structuri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jorgenson, Andrew, Kick, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 5.
Temas:
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
International economic relations > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy > Economic aspects.
Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect économique.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Economic development > Environmental aspects
Environmental policy > Economic aspects
International economic relations > Environmental aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Globalization and the Environment: An Introduction / Andrew K. Jorgenson and Edward L. Kick
  • The Ecology and the Economy: What is Rational? / Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game?: The Epistemology of Sustainability / Alf Hornborg
  • A Quantitative, Cross-National Study of Deforestation in the Late 20th Century: A Case of Recursive Exploitation / Thomas J. Burns, Edward L. Kick and Byron L. Davis
  • Foreign Investment Dependence and the Environment: A Global Perspective / Jeffrey Kentor and Peter Grimes
  • Social Roots of Global Environmental Change: A World-Systems Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions / J. Timmons Roberts, Peter E. Grimes and Jodie L. Manale
  • Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides in the Modern World-System / Richard York and Eugene A. Rosa
  • The Flow of Hazardous Exports in the World-System: The Case of the Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico / R. Scott Frey
  • Large Dams as Development: Re-structuring Natural Resources in Lesotho / Yvonne A. Braun
  • The Shifting Nature(s) of "Development": Growth, Crisis, and Recovery in Indonesia's Forests / Paul K. Gellert
  • Matter, Space, Energy and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World System / Stephen G. Bunker
  • Integrating Resource Consumption into Macrosociological Analyses of Global Social Change and Environmental Degradation / Andrew Jorgenson, James Rice, Jessica Crowe and Julie Rice
  • Ecological Degradation and the Evolution of World-Systems / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall
  • Ecological Crisis Phases, Globalization, and World-System Evolution / Sing C. Chew
  • References
  • About the Authors.

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