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By Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith, Gay Seidman

ISBN-10: 0080456650

ISBN-13: 9780080456652

ISBN-10: 0762311622

ISBN-13: 9780762311620

The papers during this quantity push the examine of the multifaceted nature-society dating and the socioeconomic effects of human dependence on nature ahead in numerous components. within the first part, Theoretical Foundations, the 5 chapters lay out theoretical types for studying the nature-society dating. The chapters study the jobs of fabric technique, area, and time in shaping social procedures of monetary ascent and long-term hegemonic switch, in addition to the position of the research of uncooked fabrics in environmental sociology. within the moment part, Commodities, Extraction and Frontiers, a sequence of case stories overlaying quite a number industries, destinations and historic sessions current numerous functions of the political financial system of average assets to severe matters relating to commodities, extraction and frontiers. The case research industries contain oil, metal, delivery, furs, sugar and Brazil nuts, and the chapters study areas in Latin the USA, North the USA, and Asia. within the 3rd part, Connecting Political and financial swap, 4 chapters concentrate on the connection among uncooked fabrics, financial switch, and socioeconomic swap. dating among political and financial switch in Latin the United States and Africa.

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Varied topographic, hydrological, geological, and atmospheric conditions are needed to produce all of these different types of matter. The world system is not simply a division of labor in space, but a division of production and extraction within materially differentiated space. It is precisely the search for larger, higher-grade volumes of more different types of matter that creates a material imperative to disperse the world economy ever more broadly across the globe, simultaneously and contrary to the socio-economic imperative to agglomerate the world economy in a minimal space to reduce transaction and communication costs.

CICCANTELL ecological and social systems requires close attention to the complex interweavings of matter and space with economy and society. This is not an easy task. Most of our life experience of economic process consists primarily of consuming the products of increasingly homogenous, increasingly largescale industry. Most of us live and work in globalized economies, where process and product are increasingly distant from the sources of the raw materials they transform. Few of us have much direct experience or practice in observing or analyzing how multiple naturally produced heterogeneous material forms, extracted and transported from many different places, are combined to produce the standardized commodities we purchase and use.

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