Ecologically Unequal Exchange : The Renewed Interpretation of Latin American Debates by the Barcelona School
Macchione Saes, Beatriz (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)

Publicación:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023
Resumen:	The ecological perspective of unequal exchange between core and peripheral countries or regions has been discussed at least since the 1980s, when Stephen Bunker analysed how the lack of political power in the Brazilian Amazon extractivist areas led to an unequal distribution of extraction costs and benefits, favouring central importing regions. Subsequent contributions are based on different theoretical perspectives, from Marxist and world-system approaches to thermodynamics and Odum's energy framework. In Barcelona School of Environmental Social Science, researchers and students led by Joan Martínez-Alier have contributed empirically and theoretically to the ecologically unequal exchange approach advancement since the mid-1990s. This chapter analyses those contributions, highlighting their original interpretation of Latin American debates and theories. I discuss how the debate over the external debt in Latin America - which seriously affected these countries in the 1980s - and the main theories of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), have decisively influenced the unequal trade theoretical and empirical works developed at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB). Firstly, these works reinforced the Latin American environmental justice organizations' claim for the recognition of an ecological debt from Global North to Global South. Secondly, they provided a renewed interpretation of ECLAC economist Raúl Prebisch's hypothesis that trade terms are structurally unfavourable to peripheral countries.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Colección:	Studies in Ecological Economics ; 8
Documento:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicado en:	The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier, 2023, p. 147-155, ISBN 978-3-031-22566-6

Podeu consultar el llibre complet a: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/272850
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22566-6_13

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