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International trade and environmental justice : toward a global political ecology / Alf Hornborg and Andrew K. Jorgenson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Environmental Research Advances
- Environmental research advances series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental justice--Economic aspects.
- Environmental justice.
- Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- International trade--Environmental aspects.
- International trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book shows how globalisation and international trade create environmental injustices between different parts of the world. Richer nations are able to shift their environmental loads onto poorer areas of the world-system, where labour and natural resources are cheaper and environmental legislation less of an obstacle. The chapters discuss recent approaches to ecological unequal exchange and environmental load displacement that use biophysical metrics rather than money to measure the uneven flows and the environmental impacts of international trade. The approaches discussed include social metabolism and material flow analysis; energy analysis; world-system and social network analysis; ecological footprint analysis; life cycle analysis; and, the use of a 'green' index of human development.
- Contents:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE""; ""SOCIAL METABOLISM AND ECOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION CONFLICTS""; ""EXPLORING ECOLOGICALLYUNEQUAL EXCHANGE USING LAND AND LABOR APPROPRIATION: TRADE IN THE NICOBAR ISLANDS, 1880 - 20001""; ""EMERGY AND TRADE: EXPLORING A MEASURE OF EQUITABLE EXCHANGE""; ""INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN FUEL COMMODITIES:ANETWORK APPROACH""; ""THE SOCIOLOGY OF UNEQUAL ECOLOGICAL EXCHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION:ACROSS-NATIONAL STUDY OF DEFORESTATION IN LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES""; ""INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN A FULL AND UNEQUAL WORLD""
- ""FEEDING THE INSATIABLE GIANT: ENVISAGING THE EFFECTS OF CHINAON LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT""""HUMAN ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS ON FORESTS AT MULTIPLE SPATIAL SCALES: TOWARD LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT USING EUROPE AS A LABORATORY""; ""VISUALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT HIDDEN IN FOOD TRADE AND FOOD CONSUMPTION IN SWEDEN: COMPARING AGRICULTURAL LAND USE, ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS, AND EMERGY FOOTPRINTS""; ""LIFE CYCLE THINKING, PRODUCT STANDARDS,AND TRADE: CAN WE ACHIEVE A BALANCE BETWEEN DIFFERENT POLICY OBJECTIVES?""; ""GREENING THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX""
- ""INDEX""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61761-869-1
- OCLC:
- 923654283
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