Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

摘要: In order to curb environmental impact, absolute resource use reductions are urgently needed. To reach this goal, multi-scalar synergies and trade-offs in global must be effectively addressed. We propose that better understanding the role of extractive economies—economies extract raw material for export—in patterns is a prerequisite identifying such trade-offs. By combining system-wide accounting perspective with insights from political ecology economy research, we demonstrate (1) extractivist expansion may corollary reduced immediate impact industrialized countries; (2) flow on which result based do not suffice identify mechanisms underlying development its use. Our work economies illustrates that, supply transformative knowledge sustainability transformation, biophysical socio-political conceptualizations society-nature relations more strongly integrated within interdisciplinary sciences general social particular.