Bunker’s Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Foster’s Metabolic Rift, and Moore’s World-Ecology: Distinctions With or Without a Difference?

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Gellert
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rift ◽  
Unequal Exchange

Rethinking Unequal Exchange

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salimah Valiani
Keyword(s):  
Unequal Exchange

scholarly journals The Currency of Ruy Mauro Marini’s Thinking and Dependency Theory / La Vigencia del Pensamiento de Ruy Mauro Marini y la Teoría de la Dependencia

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 09
Author(s):  
Adrián Sotelo Valencia
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Fourth Power ◽  
Dependency Theory ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Unequal Exchange ◽  
The World

Ruy Mauro Marini’s thinking, within the framework of Marxism, continues to apply in the 21st century because the conditions he discovered around the dialectics of dependency (super-exploitation of labor, unequal exchange, sub-imperialism, and the Fourth Power) remain in the contours of the world capitalist economy.

scholarly journals Win-win or unequal exchange? The case of the Sino-Congolese cooperation agreements

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefaan Marysse ◽  
Sara Geenen
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Internal Development ◽  
Unequal Exchange ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Investment Agreements

ABSTRACTThe recent involvement of China in sub-Saharan Africa is challenging and changing the world geostrategic scene. In the article, we analyse the agreements between the Congolese government and a group of Chinese state-owned enterprises. A number of public infrastructure works will be financed with Chinese loans. To guarantee reimbursement, a Congolese/Chinese joint venture will be created to extract and sell copper, cobalt and gold. These are the biggest trade/investment agreements that China has so far signed in Africa. This article seeks to contribute to the discussion regarding the agreement's impact on internal development in Congo. Does it create a ‘win-win’ situation for all, or is it an unequal exchange? We outline the internal and international debates and analyse several noteworthy characteristics of the agreements. In conclusion, we present a balanced view on the likely impact on Congo's short-term and long-term development.

scholarly journals Neomarxist approaches to environmental crisis and sustainable development

Sociologija ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-437
Author(s):  
Matija Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Metabolic Rift ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Heuristic Analysis

This paper discusses two neomarxist theories of ecological crises - theory of metabolic rift and the second contradiction of capitalism theory. The goal of the paper is to present two critical theories and to confront them so similarities, differences, flaws and contributions of those theories can be identified. In the first part of the paper author classifies different approaches to ecological crisis and sustainable development in order to relate two neomarxist theories to other approaches to the topic. In the second part, author discusses theory of metabolic rift, which is a heuristic analysis of Marx?s original work. In other words, this theory represents a new reading of the classic and tries to integrate it?s new findings about envirnmental side of Marx?s thought into a contemporary marxist theory. Third part of the paper is reserved for the second contradiction of capitalism, a neomarxist theory of economic crisis which can be applied as a theory of ecological crisis. Two theories are then confronted after which similarities and differences between them are pointed out. The author concludes the paper by stressing out the flaws and scientific contributions of the two theories.

scholarly journals The global water crises: a cross-national analysis of metabolic rift theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hargrove
Keyword(s):  
Water Stress ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Water Access ◽  
Metabolic Rift ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Freshwater Resource ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Water Issues ◽  
Global Water

Unchecked consumption, extraction, and growth have resulted in severe damage to ecological systems. Fresh water issues constitute one of the great challenges for political ecologists. On the one hand, there is a human health and development crisis and over 700 million people still lack access to clean, safe drinking water. On the other hand, there is a growing environmental water crisis regarding water scarcity, water stress, and freshwater resource depletion. This analysis utilizes metabolic rift theory to demonstrate the disruptive consequences that human development and agriculture have on the water cycle. I use two-way fixed effects longitudinal regression for 176 nations from 1970-2015 to test how agriculture, capital, international aid, governance, and civil society are associated with two important water indicators: access to water and water stress. I find that agriculture is associated with higher levels of water stress and higher levels of water access. Higher GDP per capita and international aid increase water access but have no significant relationship with water stress. Additionally, international non-governmental organizations and environmental treaty ratifications are associated with decreased water stress, but also decreased water access. Therefore, I find that the disruptive processes of capital and development have differential impacts on these two interrelated water outcomes. This political ecological analysis suggests that simple solutions that address water access or water stress alone, without considering the interrelated aspects of global water issues, may inadvertently influence other facets of the world's growing water concerns. Furthermore, agriculture and development create an ever-growing metabolic rift in the processes that allow fresh water to replenish itself, leading to future global issues of water access and stress.

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