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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Alf Hornborg; J. R. McNeill and Joan Martinez-Alier - Contributions by Stephen G. Bunker; William H. Fisher; Rafael A. Gassón; Stefan Giljum; N Thomas Håkansson; Josiah Heyman; J Donald Hughes; Andrew K. Jorgenson; Robert B. Marks; Joan Martinez Klappentext This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical, and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability. Zusammenfassung Providing an overview of the ecological dimension of economic processes! this book presents a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems. It also contains reflections by Immanuel Wallerstein! originator of the world-system concept! in which he talks about the various implications of global environmental change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Environmental History as Political EcologyPart I The Environment in World-System History: Tracing Social Processes in Nature1. Environmental Impacts of the Roman Economy and Social Structure: Augustus to Diocletian2. "People Said Extinction Was Not Possible": Two Thousand Years of Environmental Change in South China3. Precolonial Landesque Capital: A Global Perspective4. Food, War, and Crisis: The Seventeenth-Century Swedish Empire5. The Role of Deforestation in Earth and World-System Integration6. Silver, Ecology, and the Origins of the Modern World, 1450-16407. Trade, "Trinkets," and Environmental Change at the Edge of World-Systems: Political Ecology and the East African Ivory Trade8. Steps to an Environmental History of the Western Llanos of Venezuela: A World-System Perspective9. The Extractive Economy: An Early Phase of the Globalization of Diet, and Its Environmental Consequences10.Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1830Part II Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Unraveling Environmental Injustice in the Modern World11. Marxism, Social Metabolism, and International Trade12. Natural Values and the Physical Inevitability of Uneven Development under Capitalism13. Footprints in the Cotton Fields: The Industrial Revolution as Time-Space Appropriation and Environmental Load Displacement14. Uneven Ecological Exchange and Consumption-Based Environmental Impacts: A Cross-National Investigation15. Combining Social Metabolism and Input-Output Analyses to Account for Ecologically Unequal Trade16. Physical Trade Flows of Pollution-Intensive Products: Historical Trends in Europe and the World17. Environmental Issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Unequal Territorialization of Value18. Surrogate Money, Technology, and the Expansion of Savanna Soybeans in Brazil19. Scale and Dependency in World-Systems: Local Societies in Convergent Evolution20. The Ecology and the Economy: What is Rational?...
