Ecology and the World-System (Contributions in Economics and by Walter L. Goldfrank,David Goodman,Andrew Szasz
By Walter L. Goldfrank,David Goodman,Andrew Szasz
Integrating environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters starting from the traditional to the modern, from the worldwide to the neighborhood, from West to East, and from North to South, this publication is the 1st assortment to investigate environmental concerns from the world-systems point of view. The advent presents Immanuel Wallerstein's fullest explication of the function of ecological constraints within the world-system. Early chapters diagnose the expanding environmental threats to international sustainability and recommend how one can arrive at an built-in theoretical knowing of these threats. The paintings then indicates the old and geographical variety essential to do justice to ecological concerns in chapters contemplating old civilizations, capitalism, the circumpolar North, the dam-builders of Asia, and the polluters of East critical Europe. the ultimate chapters research the successes and boundaries of environmental hobbies within the usa, South Africa, and South Korea.
Read Online or Download Ecology and the World-System (Contributions in Economics and Economic History,) PDF
Similar nature & ecology books
Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)
Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for higher livelihoods in lots of elements of the globe all give a contribution to a progressively deepening international water hindrance. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally explanations alterations within the country of typical water reservoirs, without delay via draining aquifers and in some way via melting glaciers and the polar ice caps.
Incroyables insectes (Nature) (French Edition)
Du plus petit au plus grand, du plus discret au plus voyant, les exploits des insectes, leurs documents et leurs originalités sont décrits dans ce livre pour tous publics, avec simplicité et humour, mais sans aucune exagération. Oui, ils sont capables de tout ça ! Et pour le prouver, de nombreuses et superbes images, los angeles plupart prises sur le terrain, confirmeront aux incrédules que nos amis les insectes sont vraiment INCROYABLES !
Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies (Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science)
This publication presents a brand new synthesis of the broadcast learn at the Quaternary of eire. It reports a couple of major advances within the final 3 a long time at the realizing of the development and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and career files. these employing the newest expertise have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing sped up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically inspired luminescence among others.
Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations
Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is frequent. even though, more and more it's been stated that the key difficulties in guiding the chinese language financial system and society in the direction of sustainability are to be stumbled on on the neighborhood point. This publication illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject in basic terms marginally addressed within the literature.
Additional info for Ecology and the World-System (Contributions in Economics and Economic History,)
Example text
