Tag: ecologically unequal exchange
NEW: “From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa”
Article by Roberto Cantoni, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Elia Apostolopoulou, Julien-François Gerber, Patrick Bond, Joan Martinez-Alier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107015 Accessible at the Journal of World Development, Volume 193. Abstract Africa stands out as the continent where the legacies of colonialism and the ongoing dynamics of neo- and post-colonialism …
NEW: “Driving ecologically unequal exchange: A global analysis of multinational corporations’ role in environmental conflicts”
By Marcel Llavero-Pasquina Available at the Journal of Global Environmental Change, Volume 92 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103006 Abstract Multinational corporations are being confronted by activists and scholars over their involvement in environmental conflicts and human rights violations. …
France destroys North Niger. Will the EU or UN act?
By Nick Meynen. Tens of thousands of people in Niger’s Arlit are exposed to often deadly radiation coming from the uranium mines around the city. AREVA, owned by the French …
Climate history backs bold actions now to keep fossil fuels in the ground
By Nick Meynen. This article has been published by The Ecologist on 1 September. Thousands of protesters have occupied a coal mine near Cologne – the single largest emitter of CO2 …
Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt. Introduction to the special section. J. of Political Ecology,
By Alf Hornborg and J. Martinez-Alier.AbstractThis article introduces a Special Section on Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), an underlying source of most of the environmental distribution conflicts in our time. The …
The true cost of shrimp
By Brototi Roy. Global trade of the luxury commodity that shrimp is ignores the true human and environmental impact.Watching villagers standing waist deep in the brackish water of the Sundarbans …
New scientific insights on ecologically unequal trade
By Nick Meynen. A new light is shining on the old problem of a global economic system that creates regional environmental imbalances. Ecological economists identified and analysed the asymmetric flows of …
The unequal exchange of Dutch cheese and Kenyan roses: Introducing and testing an LCA-based methodology for estimating ecologically unequal exchange
By Martin Oulu. Abstract The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that international trade is structurally organized in a manner that allows a net transfer of resources from peripheral developing to …
Ecologically unequal exchange
The concept of ecologically unequal exchange (or trade) builds on the notion of ‘unequal exchange’ developed by scholars such as Arghiri Emmanuel (1972) and Samir Amin (1976) in the 1960s …
Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism
By Aaron Vansintjan. Philippe* is the truck driver of a food bank in Montréal, Canada. Twice a week he drives to the headquarters of Moisson Montréal, the largest food bank …
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