Globalization and the Race for Resources

By S. Bunker, P. Ciccantell. 2005

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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.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Mechanical Engineering

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ECOLOGY, CAPITAL, AND THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES: ACCUMULATION & CRISIS IN THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECOLOGY (2011, background): “…rift approaches (Foster 2000, 2009), agro-food regime theory (Friedmann 1993; Friedmann and McMichael 1989), energy and resource regime studies (Bunker and Ciccantell 2005; Podobnik 2006), and many more, with longue durée movements of recurrence and evolution in the capitalist worldecology.”
The incursions of extractivism: moving from dispersed places to global capitalism (2019, unknown): “All this makes for windfall pro ﬁ ts. Bunker and Cicantell (2005) interpret this process as reiterative and self-reinforcing: production economies of scale create material diseconomies of space that in turn generate large-scale transport economies that, by supplying more and better raw materials,…”
Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century (2009, background): “This contributes to increasing production costs and eventually physical scarcity and often causes conflicts about access to resources and about resource prices within and between countries (Martinez-Alier, 2002; Bunker and Ciccantell 2005).”