International Trade and Environmental Justice: Toward a Global Political Ecology

by Hornborg, Alf; Jorgenson, Andrew K.

• ISBN13: 9781608764266
• ISBN10: 1608764265
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Global Trade & Environmental Justice

Social Metabolism & Ecological Distribution Conflicts

Energy & Trade: Exploring a Measure of Equitable Exchange

International Trade in Fuel Commodities: A Network Approach

The Sociology of Unequal Ecological Exchange & Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Study of Deforestation in Less-Developed Countries

International Trade in a Full & Unequal World

Feeding the Insatiable Giant: Envisaging the Effects of China on Latin American Development

Human Ecological Footprints on Forests at Multiple Spatial Scales: Towards Learning for Sustainability & Integrated Landscape Management using Europe as a Laboratory

Visualising Environmental Support Hidden in Food Trade & Food Consumption in Sweden: Comparing Agricultural Land Use, Ecological Footprints, & Emergy Footprints

Life Cycle Thinking, Product Standards, & Trade: Exploring the Issues

Greening the Human Development Index

Index

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