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

Rikard Warlenius

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

Bidragets översatta titel : Asymmetrier: Konceptualisering av miljöorättvisor som ekologisk skuld och ekologiskt ojämnt utbyte

Rikard Warlenius

Humanekologi

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I centrum för denna sammanläggningsavhandling, som består av sex artiklar och ett introduktionskapitel, står koncepten ekologisk skuld, klimatskuld, ekologiskt ojämnt utbyte och ojämn appropriering av kolsänkor. Begreppens idéhistoria och politiska historia spåras bakåt till miljörättviserörelsen, ekologisk ekonomi och neo-marxistisk ekonomi. De utvecklas konceptuellt och länkas samman analytiskt genom ett lager-flödeperspektiv.

Särskild uppmärksamhet ägnas åt klimatskuld, så som det används av klimaträttviserörelsen. Dess uppfattningar om klimatskuld identifieras, de normativa utgångspunkterna testas och klimatskuld kvantifieras som bestående av både en utsläppsskuld och en anpassningsskuld.

Den sista texten fokuserar på en historisk fallstudie, där en metod för att mäta ekologiskt ojämnt utbyte – ”time-space appropriation” – används för att diskutera centrum och periferi i det tidigmoderna världssystemet; resultatet indikerar en sinocentrisk världsekonomi.

Avsnitt om kritisk realism och blandade metoder (”mixed methods”) i introduktionskapitlet positionerar avhandlingen teoretiskt och metodologiskt. Koncepten i centrum för avhandlingen syntetiseras ihop till vad som kallas ”ecological-economic asymmetries approach”. Vidare undersöks möjligheterna att basera denna ”approach” på ekologisk marxism och historisk-geografisk materialism, och en möjlig, framtida forskningsstrategi skisseras.

Bidragets översatta titel	Asymmetrier: Konceptualisering av miljöorättvisor som ekologisk skuld och ekologiskt ojämnt utbyte
Originalspråk	engelska
Kvalifikation	Doktor
Tilldelande institution	Humanekologi
Handledare	Hornborg, Alf, handledare Jerneck, Anne, handledare
Tilldelningsdatum	2017 feb. 10
Utgivningsort	Lund
Förlag	Lund University
ISBN (tryckt)	978-91-7753-146-3
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-91-7753-147-0
Status	Published - 2017 jan. 16

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Defence details
Date: 2017-02-10
Time: 13.00
Place: Världen, Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10, Lund
External reviewer(s)
Name: Joan Martinez-Alier
Title: Professor
Affiliation: ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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2 Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift
1 Kapitel samlingsverk

Linking ecological debt and ecologically unequal exchange: stocks, flows, and carbon sink appropriation
Warlenius, R., 2016 okt. 25, I: Journal of Political Ecology. 23, 1, s. 364-380
Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review

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Core and periphery in the early modern world system: A time-space appropriation assessment
Warlenius, R., 2016 maj 11, Methods in World History: A critical approach. Jarrick, A., Myrdal, J. & Wallenberg Bondesson, M. (red.). Lund: Nordic Academic Press, s. 185-225 40 s.
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Reversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of "ecological debt" and its value for environmental justice
Warlenius, R., Pierce, G. & Ramasar, V., 2015, I: Global Environmental Change. 30, s. 21-30
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Asymmetries: Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange

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Linking ecological debt and ecologically unequal exchange: stocks, flows, and carbon sink appropriation

Core and periphery in the early modern world system: A time-space appropriation assessment

Reversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of "ecological debt" and its value for environmental justice

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