scholarly journals Theorizing and Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World-System: Deforestation in the Late 20th Century

2003 ◽  
pp. 357-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Burns ◽  
Edward L. Kick ◽  
Byron L. Davis
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Multivariate Regression Analysis ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Generic Models ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Main Effects

Building on prior work in world-system analysis and human ecology, we test a macro-level theory that social and demographic causes of deforestation will vary across zones of the modern world-system. Using multivariate regression analysis, we examine models of deforestation over the period 1990-2000. We test for main effects of world-system posmon, two different population variables (urbanization and proportion under working age), and economic development within zone, as well as for the contextual effects of these variables as they operate differently across world-system positions. Our findings indicate that generic models of deforestation need to be qualified, because the particular social factors most closely associated with deforestation tend to vary by position in the global hierarchy. Deforestation at the macro level is best explained by considering effects of socio-demographic processes contextually, in terms of world-system dynamics. We discuss the findings in a more general world-systems and behavioral ecological framework, and suggest the field will be well served with more precise theorizing and closer attention to scope conditions.

DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN THE MODERN WORLD AS A FACTOR OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Security ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Demographic Processes

The demographic processes of the modern world in the context of international security are considered. The main focus is on the demographic situation in industrialized countries and developing countries. The nature of population growth in developing regions and the threat of uncontrolled migration are traced. The demographic problem of industrially developed countries - an increase in the proportion of the population of retirement age with a decrease in the proportion of the population of working age - is highlighted. It was revealed that the marginalization of the population, combined with the high mobility of the population, which is inherent in developing regions, creates the preconditions for further migration of the population, particularly to more developed regions, such a situation - a large percentage of mobile and young population in developing regions is a threat to socio-economic and political stability in developed regions, since a high standard of living, developed infrastructure, economic and social stability make developed regions attractive for migration from developing countries. It is analyzed that industrially developed regions have undergone a demographic transition, which has led to an increase in the proportion of the elderly population while the proportion of the working-age population has decreased, such demographic changes call into question the viability of the Welfare state model in the long term due to the lack of resources to support it, and a high standard of living actualizes the problem of uncontrolled migration from developing regions that have a surplus of population. The problem of institutional inefficiency in developing regions is considered, which can determine the problem of natural disasters, hunger, wars and epidemics and, as a consequence, a massive uncontrolled process of changing the place of residence, is a serious factor of regional and international security. The article analyzes how the demographic situation in the modern world is a challenge and threat to regional and international security.

Immanuel Wallerstein, the “modern world-system,” and radical human geography

2020 ◽  
pp. 194277862097405
Author(s):  
John Agnew
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein

Arguably, one of the major innovations in social science beginning in the 1970 s was Immanuel Wallerstein’s discovery of what he called the “modern world-system.” This was the idea of a progressively global capitalist world-economy spreading out from Western Europe and structured geographically to exploit peripheral areas for the benefit of a capitalist class in the core. This model proved attractive to some radical geographers because of its global reach, historicity, critique of state centrism, and reliance on a spatial conception of distinctive labor processes associated with different geographic zones. As well as providing a review of the overall framework and criticisms directed at it, I also discuss Wallerstein’s efforts at what he called “unthinking” the orthodox social sciences, his critique of Eurocentrism, doubts about the “radical” quality of his historical model, and the range of writing that emerged under the sign of “world-system analysis.” I close with a discussion of the influence of the perspective in human geography, specifically in relation to development geography, efforts at revitalizing regional geography, and political geography. A brief conclusion suggests that the overall perspective not only has not kept pace with “current reality” but that its conception of “hegemony” does not account for the contemporary American impasse in the world economy as well as Wallerstein hoped it would.

Modern World-System Analysis and Foreign Trade

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (Special) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Filiz ELMAS
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Modern World

The demographic development of the Finno-Ugric peoples in the modern world

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-779
Author(s):  
E.V. Molchanova
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Special Information ◽  
Health Organization

Subject. This study focuses on the Finno-Ugric peoples carrying unique cultural customs and traditions. Objectives. I evaluate how various factors influence the demographic development of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Methods. Analyzing the current situation, I refer to official statistics and the Health for All database of the World Health Organization, statistical yearbooks of the Russian State Statistics Service. All data were organized as a special information system including several related blocks, such as economic development of locations, demographic situation, health and healthcare. Research was based on the comparative analysis of key medical-demographic and socio-economic indicators, and economic-mathematical apparatus. Results. I comprehensively evaluated the current situation macro- and mesoeconomically by gradually shifting from the comparison of countries to regional trends. I traced patterns of medical and demographic processes in the Finno-Ugric countries, such as Hungary, Finland and Estonia, and national autonomies across Russia. Conclusions and Relevance. I discovered that there is a certain relationship between a man and environment that translate into physical and physical health of people. They should be taken into consideration when outlining demographic development programs. The findings can be used to prepare regional medical and demographic documents, including the prevention of suicidal behavior and alcoholism and general medical services.

To the discussion about the modern world order

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
A. Mustafabeyli
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
World System ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
World Order ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Second World

In many political researches there if a conclusion that the world system which was founded after the Second world war is destroyed of chaos. But the world system couldn`t work while the two opposite systems — socialist and capitalist were in hard confrontation. After collapse of the Soviet Union and the European socialist community the nature of intergovernmental relations and behavior of the international community did not change. The power always was and still is the main tool of international communication.

Studies of the Modern World-System

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Ralph A. Austen ◽  
Albert Bergesen
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Modern World

METAPHOR OF «DESTROYED WORLD» IN THE POLITICAL PROJECTION OF WORLD-SYSTEM ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
V.E. BAGDASARYAN ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Political Process ◽  
World System ◽  
World Order ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Catastrophe ◽  
Systemic Nature ◽  
World Center

The purpose of the article is to present an analysis of modern global political processes characterized by the unipolarity of the destruction of the former world system. The current situation of political transit is assessed as a failure of technologies of controlled chaos and transition to a state of turbulence. The basic approach of the research was the methodology of world-systems analysis. The article provides arguments that substantiate the systemic nature of the crisis of the World Center, the problematic nature of the restoration of the unipolar system of the world order. Four scenario perspectives of further development of the world political process are considered: 1. restoration of the leadership legitimacy of the World Center; 2. change of the core of the world system; 3. transition of a state of chaos to a global catastrophe; 4. the establishment of a system of a multilateral world of civilizations. It is indicated that the West-centered world-system has paradoxically diverged at some stage from the values of the Western civilization itself. And it is obvious that the transition to a multilateral world should be linked to the basic civilizational values of the world-systems, their differences from the values of other communities. As a result, practical recommendations are presented for the activity steps of building a system of multilateral world order as a desirable prospect for overcoming the state of turbulence and preventing a new geopolitical hegemony.

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