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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments
Consumption, Commodity Chains, and Global and Local Environments
Our Material World
Consumption uses things up.* By now it is well known that we humans consume vast quantities of natural resources and substantially change our local, national, and global environments in the process. Furthermore, everything comes from somewhere. Whether the things we consume are grown, captured, mined, or manufactured—or some combination of these—they come from somewhere. People and communities are involved in complex processes that create, harvest, distribute, and sell the things we use in our daily lives. Every transaction along these chains or webs of economic and social relations consumes resources. And frankly, the social and environmental conditions in which things are ...
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