Unequal Ecological Exchange and Environmental Degradation: A Theoretical Proposition and Cross‐National Study of Deforestation, 1990–2000*

By Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Socio-economic and biophysical determinants of land degradation in Vietnam: An integrated causal analysis at the national level (2014, background): “, effects taken over a far distance) on deforestation in remote areas (Angelsen, 1996; DeFries et al., 2010; Douglas, 2006; Geist and Lambin, 2004; Jorgenson, 2006; Jorgenson and Burns, 2007).”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice (2009, background): “A series of recent studies have also confirmed the negative social and environmental impacts for developing countries of integration into the world economic system (Jorgenson, 2003, 2006, 2009).”
Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift (2009, background): “The environmental footprint of economically advanced nations involves appropriation of land, resources, and labor in lesser-developed countries, increasing the environmental degradation in the latter for the benefit of the former (Hornborg, 1998, 2001; Jorgenson, 2006).”
The theory of unequal ecological exchange: a Marx-Odum dialectic (2014, background): “…the capitalist world economy, in an attempt to gauge the ecological disadvantages that have been systematically imposed on the periphery (e.g. Hornborg 2006, 2011, Jorgenson 2006, Jorgenson and Rice 2007, Lawrence 2009, Jorgenson and Clark 2009, 2012, Jorgenson et al. 2009, Clark and Foster 2009).”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Resource Consumption/Environmental Degradation Paradox (2009, methodology): “For discussions of other primary sector commodities and their relevance for research on the consequences of ecologically unequal exchange relationships, see Bunker and Ciccantell (2005), Jorgenson (2006) and Rudel (2005).”
Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use (2013, background): “Another view, based on the unequal exchange theory, holds that developed countries externalize their consumption-based environmental costs to less-developed countries, including through land use embodied in trade [59,60].”
Characterizing commercial oil palm expansion in Latin America: land use change and trade (2017, background): “This breaks from the conventional view of palm oil as a global South-North flowing commodity, and built-in assumptions about deforestation based on the unequal exchange theory [65].”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange, World Polity, and Biodiversity Loss (2009, methodology): “This advantage facilitates disproportionate access of wealthy nations to natural resources and ecological sink capacities of poor nations (Hornborg, 2001; Jorgenson, 2006a; Rice, 2007).”