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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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Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Environmental Load Displacement
Jennifer E. Givens,Xiaorui Huang +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of environmentally unequal exchange theory and the concept of environmental load displacement are two important global, political economic approaches to environmental sociology as mentioned in this paper, which have been studied extensively in the last few decades.
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Bridging environmental conflicts with social metabolism : forestry expansion and socioeconomic change
TL;DR: Dissertacao apresentada para obtencao do Grau de Doutor em Ciencias do Ambiente, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Cientcias e Tecnologia as discussed by the authors.
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An Operational Approach to Agroecology-Based Local Agri-Food Systems
TL;DR: In this article, a critical review was performed in order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue between both political agroecology and the literature on sustainable food systems, and to build insights into how to advance towards Agro-ecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS).
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Divergent Pathways on the Road to Sustainability: A Multilevel Model of the Effects of Geopolitical Power on the Relationship between Economic Growth and Environmental Quality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of a country's placement in the world system in 1960 on its ability to use wealth to mitigate environmental impacts using random-coefficients models.
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We adapt … but is it good or bad? Locating the political ecology and social-ecological systems debate in reindeer herding in the Swedish Sub-Arctic
L F Gloria Gallardo,Fred Saunders,Tatiana Sokolova,Kristina Börebäck,Frank van Laerhoven,Suvi Kokko,Magnus Tuvendal +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the implications of two theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping complex socio-environmental relationships of reindeer herding in Subarctic Sweden based on joint fieldwork.
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