Journal of Political Ecology (Dec 2016)

Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt

  • Alf Hornborg,
  • Joan Martinez-Alier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2458/v23i1.20220
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 1
pp. 328 – 333

Abstract

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This article introduces a Special Section on Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), an underlying source of most of the environmental distribution conflicts in our time. The nine articles discuss theories, methodologies, and empirical case studies pertaining to ecologically unequal exchange, and address its relationship to ecological debt. Key words: Ecologically Unequal Exchange, ecological debt, political ecology This is the introductory article in Alf Hornborg and Joan Martinez-Alier (eds.) 2016. "Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 23: 328-491.