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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 226-244Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.09.004
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Sustainability; Globalization; Development; Environment; Political economy; Human ecology; Ecological footprint; Consumption; Ecologically unequal exchange; Militarization; Urbanization; Environmental sociology
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Sociology is poised to greatly enhance our collective understanding of the various sustainability challenges facing the world today To contribute to this endeavor the authors conduct panel analyses of the per capita ecological footprints of nations to evaluate multiple theoretical traditions within environmental sociology and its sister approaches Findings indicate that the consumption-based environmental impacts of nations are tied to economic development urban population, militarization, and the structure of international trade Ecological conditions in the context of climate and biogeography also prove to partially shape the environmental harms of human activities Ultimately this research suggests that political-economic factors, ecological milieu and structural associations between nations all influence society/nature relationships Considering the globally unsustainable levels of resource consumption and concomitant increases in pollution for a growing number of nations throughout the world the authors contend that theoretically inclusive and methodologically rigorous investigations on such topics should be more central to the discipline (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved
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