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Zero-Sum World: Challenges in Conceptualizing Environmental Load Displacement and Ecologically Unequal Exchange in the World-System
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In this article, the authors discuss various ways in which conventional discourse on sustainability fails to acknowledge the distributive, political, and cultural dimensions of global environmental problems, and identify five interconnected illusions currently postponing systemic crisis and obstructing rational societal negotiations that acknowledge the political dimension of global ecology.Abstract:
This article discusses various ways in which conventional discourse on sustainability fails to acknowledge the distributive, political, and cultural dimensions of global environmental problems. It traces some lineages of critical thinking on environmental load displacement and ecologically unequal exchange, arguing that such acknowledgement of a global environmental `zero-sum game' is essential to recognizing the extent to which cornucopian perceptions of `development' represent an illusion. It identifies five interconnected illusions currently postponing systemic crisis and obstructing rational societal negotiations that acknowledge the political dimensions of global ecology: 1) The fragmentation of scientific perspectives into bounded categories such as `technology', `economy', and `ecology'. 2) The assumption that the operation of market prices is tantamount to reciprocity. 3) The illusion of machine fetishism, that is, that the technological capacity of a given population is independent of that popula...read more
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Challenging dichotomies – exploring resilience as an integrative and operative conceptual framework for large-scale urban green structures
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The sociology of ecologically unequal exchange, foreign investment dependence and environmental load displacement: summary of the literature and implications for sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize sociological approaches to (1) ecologically unequal exchange, and (2) foreign investment dependence and environmental load displacement, which consist of structural theories and cross-national statistical analyses that test hypotheses derived from both approaches.
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Toward an alternative dialogue between the social and natural sciences
TL;DR: The authors made a comparison of eight distinct interdisciplinary attempts at integration of knowledge across social and natural sciences, and concluded that none of these prominent eight interdisciplinary fields in and of itself manages to provide, in a satisfactory way, such an integrated understanding of sustainability.
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Luxury seafood consumption in China and the intensification of coastal livelihoods in Southeast Asia: The live reef fish for food trade in Balabac, Philippines
Michael Fabinyi,Michael D. Pido,Babylyn Harani,Jennelyn Caceres,Arselene Uyami-Bitara,Aileen. De las Alas,Jose Buenconsejo,Eva Marie Ponce de Leon +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between Chinese patterns of luxury seafood consumption and the intensification of coastal livelihoods in Southeast Asia, focusing mostly on the trade in live reef fish, with reference also to sea cucumber and shark fin.
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Community development in Ok Tedi, Papua New Guinea: the role of anthropology in the extractive industries
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