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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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Asymmetries : Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange
TL;DR: In this article, the concepts of ecological debt, climate debt, ecologically unequal exchange, and unequal carbon sink appropriation are at the centre of a compilation thesis, consisting of six papers and an introductory chapter.
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Accounting for unintended consequences of resource policy: Connecting research that addresses displacement of environmental impacts
TL;DR: This work connects research across multiple disciplines to promote a broader discussion and recognition of the processes and pathways that can lead to displaced impacts that countermand or undermine resource policy and outline a number of approaches that can mitigate displacement.
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From a Blind Spot to a Nexus: Building on Existing Trends in Knowledge Production to Study the Copresence of Ecotourism and Extraction
TL;DR: The authors investigates how such instances of copresence are marginalized in literatures about ecotourism and extraction, constituting a “blind spot” in academic literature, and analyzes whether they contribute to the "blind spot" or can be mobilized by the nexus perspective.
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Reconceptualizing Environmental Challenges — Is Resilience the New Narrative?
TL;DR: The authors posits that the concept of resilience is emerging as a new narrative in both scholarly literature and policy discussions that has potential in this regard, and examines the potential for resilience to shift the environmental governance paradigm in helpful ways.
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System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics.
TL;DR: In this article, a more narrow scale view of the relationship between social and ecological aspects is presented. But the concept of social-ecological systems is still considered to be in an exploratory phase, where one of the key challenges is to come to grips with complexity.
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Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems.
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TL;DR: Paleoecological, archaeological, and historical data show that time lags of decades to centuries occurred between the onset of overfishing and consequent changes in ecological communities, because unfished species of similar trophic level assumed the ecological roles of over-fished species until they too were overfished or died of epidemic diseases related to overcrowding as mentioned in this paper.
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