Contents -- Globalization and the Environment: An Introduction --- Andrew K.Jorgenson and Edward L. Kick -- The Ecology and the Economy: What is Rational? --- Immanuel Wallerstein -- Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game? The Epistemology of Sustainability --- Alf Hornborg -- A Quantitative, Cross-National Study of Deforestation in the Late 20th Century: A Case of Recursive Exploitation --- Thomas J. Burns, Edward L. Kick and Byron L. Davis -- Foreign Investment Dependence and the Environment: A Global Perspective --- Jeffrey Kentor and Peter Grimes -- Social Roots of Global Environmental Change: A World-Systems Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions --- J. Timmons Roberts, Peter E. Grimes and Jodie L. Manale -- Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides in the Modern World-System --- Richard York and Eugene A. Rosa -- The Flow of Hazardous Exports in the World-System: The Case of the Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico --- R. Scott Frey -- Large Dams as Development: Re-structuring Natural Resources in Lesotho --- Yvonne A. Braun -- The Shifting Nature(s) of "Development": Growth, Crisis, and Recovery in Indonesia's Forests --- Paul K. Gellert -- Matter, Space, Energy and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World System --- Stephen G. Bunker -- Integrating Resource Consumption into Macrosociological Analyses of Global Social Change and Environmental Degradation --- Andrew Jorgenson, James Rice, Jessica Crowe and Julie Rice -- Ecological Degradation and the Evolution of World-Systems --- Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall -- Ecological Crisis Phases, Globalization, and World-System Evolution --- Sing C. Chew -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.