Full Description
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 structuring impact the natural environment and the living conditions of human populations living across the globe. Environmental dynamics in areas as diverse as Ancient Egypt and the Modern Amazon are presented for readers who are new to the world-systems approach and for others interested in recent efforts to link environmental outcomes and antecedents to global processes.
Contents
1. Globalization and the Environment: An Introduction, Andrew K. Jorgenson And Edward L. Kick
2. The Ecology and the Economy: What is Rational?, Immanuel Wallerstein
3. Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game? The Epistemology of Sustainability, Alf Hornborg
4. 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
5. Foreign Investment Dependence and the Environment: A Global Perspective, Jeffrey Kentor and Peter Grimes
6. Social Roots of Global Environmental Change: A World-Systems Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions, J. Timmons Roberts, Peter Grimes and Jodie Manale
7. Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides in the Modern World-System, Richard York And Eugene A. Rosa
8. The Flow of Hazardous Exports in the World-System: The Case of the Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico, R. Scott Frey
9. Large Dams as Development: Re-structuring Natural Resources in Lesotho, Yvonne Braun
10. The Shifting Nature(s) of "Development": Growth, Crisis, and Recovery in Indonesia's Forests, Paul K. ellert
11. Matter, Space, Energy and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World System, Stephen G. Bunker
12. Integrating Resource Consumption into Macrosociological Analyses of Global Social Change and Environmental Degradation, Andrew K. Jorgenson, James Rice, Jessica Crowe and Julie Rice
13. Ecological Degradation and the Evolution of World-Systems, Christopher Chase-Dunn And Thomas Hall
14. Ecological Crisis Phases, Globalization, and World-System Evolution, Sing Chew
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