Globalization and the Environment

Abstract

1. Globalization and the Environment: An Introduction, Andrew K. Jorgenson And Edward L. Kick 2. The Ecology and the Economy: What is Rational?, Immanuel Wallerstein 3. Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game? The Epistemology of Sustainability, Alf Hornborg 4. 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 5. Foreign Investment Dependence and the Environment: A Global Perspective, Jeffrey Kentor and Peter Grimes 6. Social Roots of Global Environmental Change: A World-Systems Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions, J. 7. Timmons Roberts, Peter Grimes and Jodie Manale 8. Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides in the Modern World-System, Richard York And Eugene A. Rosa 9. The Flow of Hazardous Exports in the World-System: The Case of the Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico, R. Scott Frey 10. Large Dams as Re-structuring Natural Resources in Lesotho, Yvonne Braun 11. The Shifting Nature(s) of Development: Growth, Crisis, and Recovery in Indonesia's Forests, Paul K. Gellert 12. Matter, Space, Energy and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World System, Stephen G. Bunker 13. Integrating Resource Consumption into Macrosociological Analyses of Global Social Change and Environmental 14. Degradation, Andrew K. Jorgenson, James Rice, Jessica Crowe and Julie Rice 15. Ecological Degradation and the Evolution of World-Systems, Christopher Chase-Dunn And Thomas Hall 16. Ecological Crisis Phases, Globalization, and World-System Evolution, Sing Chew References About the Authors Index