Globalization and the Race for Resources

Informationen zum Autor Stephen G. Bunker (1944–2005) was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Klappentext Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations--Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan--achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials.Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell reveal globalization as the result of the progressive extension of systematically integrated material processes across cumulatively greater space. Drawing from extensive historical research into how economic and environmental dynamics interacted in the extraction of different materials in the Amazon, especially in the development of the iron mine of Carajas, the authors also illustrate the profound connection between global dominance and control of natural resources. Zusammenfassung Drawing from extensive historical research into how economic and environmental dynamics interacted in the extraction of different materials in the Amazon! especially in the development of the iron mine of Carajas! the authors illustrate the profound connection between global dominance and control of natural resources.

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• Authors: Stephen G Bunker, Stephen G. Bunker, Stephen G. (University of Wisconsin) Bunker, Paul S Ciccantell, Paul S. Ciccantell, Paul S. (Western Michigan University) Ciccantell
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2006
• EAN: 9780801882432
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8243-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Themes in Global Social Change; Themes in Global Social Change
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics