Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, unequal exchange and the failure of the modern state

By R. Schultes. Economic Botany, 2008

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Zero-Sum World (2009, background): “…this umbrella we can identify a number of more specific approaches, theories, and methodologies, such as ‘environmental justice’ (Harvey, 1996), ‘ecologically unequal exchange’ (Bunker, 1985; Hornborg, 1998; Rice, 2007), ‘ecological footprint analysis’ (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996), and so on.”
Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia (2012, background): “Much of the current extractive industry is capital-intensive with limited forward and backward linkages to other sectors, which contributes to its inability to create many jobs, as development scholars have found elsewhere (Bunker, 1985; Freudenburg, 1992; Hirschman, 1958).”
Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme (2020, background): “There is also the interesting spin-off ecological dependency literature that is based on un- equal exchange, pioneered by Bunker (1985).”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice (2009, background): “15 Bunker (1985) sought to apply insights from thermodynamic law to global political economy.”
Is there a global environmental justice movement? (2016, background): “One of the primary environmental challenges faced by populations of the global South stems from an economic system that produces ‘ecologically unequal trade’, an academic concept (Bunker 1985; Hornborg 1998, 2005; Hornborg, McNeill, and Martinez-Alier 2007).”
Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts, and Valuation Languages (2010, background): “Two pioneering authors were S. Bunker (1984, 1985, 2007) and A. Hornborg (1998, 2007), the first a sociologist, the second an anthropologist and a historian, both specialists on the Brazilian Amazon.”
Decentralization and participation in integrated coastal management: Policy lessons from Brazil and Indonesia (2012, background): “After decades of centralized authoritarian rule guided by the pursuit of economic growth and with little consideration for social equity and sustainability (Bunker, 1985), environmental protection and sustainability were formally adopted.”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Resource Consumption/Environmental Degradation Paradox (2009, background): “…and structural context in which subsequent development efforts unfold, with the latter potentially complicating future value-added extractive activities and thus negatively impacting the quality of life for domestic populations (Bunker, 1984, 1985; see also Jorgenson, 2009; Rice, 2007a).”
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century (2021, background): “Stephen Bunker (1988) pro - posed that there was also an unequal exchange of “energy values” that benefitted industrialized regions to the detriment of extractive zones of the world economy.”
Ecological Unequal Exchange: Consumption, Equity, and Unsustainable Structural Relationships within the Global Economy (2007, background): “Capital accumulation is fundamentally rooted in alteration of ecological systems and the exploitation of labor (Bunker, 1985; Hornborg, 2001).”