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International trade and environmental justice : toward a global political ecology / Alf Hornborg and Andrew K. Jorgenson, editors.

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International trade and environmental justice : toward a global political ecology / Alf Hornborg and Andrew K. Jorgenson, editors.
Publication
New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Hornborg, Alf.
  • Jorgensen, Andrew K.
Description
xi, 254 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Series Statement
Environmental research advances series
Uniform Title
Environmental research advances series.
Subject
  • Environmental justice > Economic aspects
  • Environmental policy > Economic aspects
  • International trade > Environmental aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Global Trade and Environmental Justice / Alf Hornborg -- Chapter 1. Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts / Joan Martinez-Alier -- Chapter 2. Exploring Ecologically Unequal Exchange Using Land and Labor Appropriation: Trade in the Nicobar Islands, 1880-2000 / R. Venkat Ramanujam -- Chapter 3. Emergy and Trade: Exploring a Measure of Equitable Exchange / Torbjorn Rydberg -- Chapter 4. International Trade in Fuel Commodities: A Network Approach / Carl Nordlund -- Chapter 5. The Sociology of Unequal Ecological Exchange and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Study of Deforestation in Less-Developed Countries / Andrew K. Jorgenson -- Chapter 6. International Trade in a Full and Unequal World / Jan Otto Andersson -- Chapter 7. Feeding the Insatiable Giant: Envisaging the Effects of China on Latin American Development / Roldan Muradian -- Chapter 8. Human Ecological Footprints on Forests at Multiple Spatial Scales: Toward Learning for Sustainability and Integrated Landscape Management using Europe as a Laboratory / Marine Elbakidze -- Chapter 9. Visualizing Environmental Support Hidden in Food Trade and Food Consumption in Sweden: Comparing Agricultural Land Use, Ecological Footprints, and Emergy Footprints / Susanne Johansson -- Chapter 10. Life Cycle Thinking, Product Standards, and Trade: Can we Achieve a Balance between Different Policy Objectives? / Chris van Rossem -- Chapter 11. Greening the Human Development Index / Kenneth Hermele.
ISBN
  • 9781608764266 (hbk.)
  • 1608764265 (hbk.)
LCCN
2009035588
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries