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Ecology and the world-system
Title:
Ecology and the world-system
Author:
Goldfrank, Walter L.
ISBN:
9780313030147
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 265 p.) : ill.
Series:
Contributions in economics and economic history, 211

Studies in the political economy of the world-system

Contributions in economics and economic history ; 211.

Studies in the political economy of the world-system.
Contents:
Ecology and capitalist costs of production : no exit / Horsemen and the killing fields : the final contradiction of capitalism / Ecosociology and toxic emissions / Extending the world-system to the whole system : toward a political economy of the biosphere / Ecological relations and the decline of civilizations in the Bronze Age world-system : Mesopotamia and Harappa 2500 B.C.-1700 B.C. / Economic ascent and the global environment : world-systems theory and the new historical materialism / Development of the risk economy in the circumpolar north / Modernism, water, and affluence : the Japanese way in East Asia / Wastelands in transition : forms and concepts of waste in Hungary since 1948 / Success and impasse : the environmental movement in the United States and around the world / Globalization, democratization, and the environment in the new South Africa : social movements, corporations, and the state in South Durban / Emergence of South Korean environmental movements : a response (and challenge?) to semiperipheral industrialization
Abstract:
Integrating environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West to East, and from North to South, this book is the first collection to analyze environmental issues from the world-systems perspective. The introduction provides Immanuel Wallerstein's fullest explication of the role of ecological constraints in the world-system. Early chapters diagnose the increasing environmental threats to global sustainability and suggest ways to arrive at an integrated theoretical understanding of those threats. The work th.
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