Sökning: "ecological justice"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden ecological justice.

1. 1. Asymmetries : Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange

   Författare :Rikard Warlenius; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental justice; Ecological debt; Ecologically unequal exchange; Environmental history; Ecological Marxism; Ecological economics; World system analysis;

   Sammanfattning : In this compilation thesis, consisting of six papers and an introductory chapter, the concepts of ecological debt, climate debt, ecologically unequal exchange, and unequal carbon sink appropriation are at the centre. Their intellectual and political histories are traced to environmental justice movements, ecological economics and neo-Marxist economics. LÄS MER

3. 2. Misplaced Concreteness and Concrete Places : Critical Analyses of Divergent Discourses on Sustainability

   Författare :Carina Borgström Hansson; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; econometrics; Economics; Mainstream and counterpoint; Discourse; Place; Adaptive management; Genuine savings; Ecological footprint; Ecological economics; Bioregionalism; Sustainability; Environmental economics; Human ecology; Misplaced concreteness; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation critically examines the tension between mainstream and counterpoint perspectives on sustainability on the basis of analyses of four approaches to this issue: environmental economics, ecological economics, adaptive management, and bioregionalism, which are presented as successive attempts to challenge mainstream, modernist perspectives on socio-ecological relationships. The different worldviews and identity constructions associated with the two extremes in this spectrum of approaches are examined on the basis of interviews with environmental economists and bioregionalists in California. LÄS MER

4. 3. Människan, naturen och Gud : En studie av miljöetiken i nutida kristen teologi

   Författare :Kerstin Andersson; Carl-Henric Grenholm; Ulf Görman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Ethics; theological environmental ethics; Rasmussen; Boff; Ruether; communitarian ethics; liberation theology; ecofeminist theology; anthropocentrism; biocentrism; ecocentrism; environmental ethics; existential vulnerability; ecological justice; Christian ethics; Etik; Etik; Ethics;

   Sammanfattning : This study has three aims. The first aim is to analyse and clarify three models of theological environmental ethics. A second aim is to critically examine and compare the environmental ethical models of the three theologians. The third aim is to present a reasonable model of a theological environmental ethic. LÄS MER

5. 4. Fair Enough? : Ecologically Unequal Exchange, International Trade, and Environmental Justice

   Författare :Martin Oulu; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Capitalism; ecologically unequal exchange; environmental justice; ecomodernism; Global South; Global North; international trade; LCA; neoliberalism; political ecology; postcolonial; socio-metabolism; sustainability; science; world-system;

   Sammanfattning : The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral global South to feed industrial processes and capital accumulation in the core North. This situation, it is argued, imperils the development of the South. LÄS MER

7. 5. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary

   Författare :Ryan Palmer; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Michael Lundblad; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecocriticism; ecofiction; re-enchantment; wonder; disenchantment; noir; environmental ethics; climate change; affect; environmental justice; Thomas Pynchon; Lydia Millet; Karen Tei Yamashita; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. LÄS MER