Globalization and the Environment: Greening Global Political Economy

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155 Index accumulation, and consumer culture, 94 Adam, B., 32 advertising, and conspicuous consumption , 98 African regions, economic organization, 110–111 agency, and globalization, 19; and the consumer, 62; question of, 72 Agenda 21, pesticide reduction, 104–105 agenda-setting, temporality, 71 Agrochemical sector, power of, 123 American Fiber Manufacturers Association , 103 anthropocentrism, 73 Asante, S., 111 austerity programs, and public debt, 113–114 Banuri, T., 92, 102 Baudrillard, J., 47 Brett, E., 112, 113 Bretton Woods system, 6, 12, 13 Brewer, J., 48 Brundtland Report (1987), 17 Bund für Natur und Umweltschutz Deutschland (BUND), 97 Campbell, C., 48, 94 capital accumulation, 10 capital flight, 70 capitalism, and globalization, 5; and history, 7 capitalist societies, “pre-industrial, pre-modern,” 23 cash crops, and disembedded social and cultural institutions, 124; and the slave trade, 108; World Bank and IMF policies, 92 ‘ceaseless accumulation,’ 10 Chew, S., 26 Civil society, 28, 99 civil society, and the cotton chain, 93 codes of conduct, 93 codes of conduct, Nike and Gap, 129 Codex Alimentarius Commission, 104 colonization, West Africa, 108–109 commodity chain, and the social construct of an economy, 51; global, 50 commodity chain analysis, 59; and historical materialist, 50; and world systems approach, 50 commodity chains, networks of labor and production processes, 49 Compaignie Malienne pour le Développement des Textiles, 115 comparative sustainability, 97 competitive advantage, 133; need versus efficiency, 135 competitiveness, and impediments to, 78 Conca, K., 54 consumer, and influence on production, 62; responsibility, 62 consumer class, 53 consumer culture, and accumulation, 94 consumer protection legislation, 134 consumer society, 93 consumerism, and Protestant ethic, 48; and romanticism, 48; and the Industrial Revolution, 49; and the rise of modern capitalism, 48 consumers, and their purchasing choices, 59 Consumption and Equity, 60–61 Consumption, as an Environmental Issue, 55–60 156 Index Consumption, Commodity Chains and, 49–52 Consumption, The Global Division of Labor and, 52–55 consumption, an influence on production , 46; and cheap labor, 96; and emotional pleasure, 94; and patterns of, 96; and social bonds, 94; and structural origins, 59; and the consumer ethic, 94; and the environment , 56; as a cultural phenomenon, 44; as a supply and demand variable, 128; ‘collusion’ of the consumer, 97; “economies of flexibility, fundamental inequalities, patterns of environmental degradation,” 47; excluded form political science, 48; “garment, in Europe,” 97; households and, 50; marginalization of, 93; the ethic of, 47; tyranny of, 52; ignored in political economy, 46 consumption and production, the primacy of, 45 core-periphery, 6; and cotton, 89 corporate codes of conduct, 37–38 cosmopolitan, or global justice, 76 Cotton and Textiles Today—From Production to Consumption, 91–99 cotton, as a cash crop, 91; demand and consumption, 114; problems of intensive agriculture, 123 cotton dependence, West Africa, 117– 118 cotton market, decoupling (local and global), 109–110 cotton processes, 103 cotton production, problems, 121–123 Cotton Sector, West Africa, 114–118 Cox, R., 5, 8, 11, 54 critical and alternative GPE, 19 Cronon, W., 65 cultural identity, 57 culture, problems of definition, 43; reflectivist and post-modern approaches , 45; social construction of the environment, 45; social practices and their influence on belief systems, 44 Culture as Consumption, 45–48 Debt and Structural Adjustment (West Africa), 111–114 Der Derian, James, 34 distanciation, between accumulation of capital and environmental degradation , 30–31; between production and consumption, 30 division of labor, 5; and governments, 67 Drezner, D., 14 Dryzek, J., 67 ecocentrism, 73 eco-holism, and time, 30 eco-holistic, 22; and GPE approach, 23 eco-holistic approach, 43, 52, 125 eco-holistic perspective, 9 eco-holistic political economy, 58, 127 eco-labeling, 105; Blue Angel, 105 ecological time, 30 ecological world systems, and increasing levels of trade, 41; approach, 27 ecological world systems theory, and alternative to historical materialist orthodoxy, 26 ecological world systems theory, 26, 125 economic exporting zones, EEZ, 99; and sweatshops, 99 economic governance, lack of environmental provision, 35 economic rights, 79 ecosocialist, environmental justice, 74 ecosystems, and waste, 17 ECOWAS, Economic Community of West African States, 110 embedded liberalism, 18 empires, decline in natural resources, 26 Englebert, P., 114 enlightenment, 23; and the mastering of nature, 25; philosophy, 59 Environment and Globalization, 28–30 Index 157 environment, and social relations, 30; and structural adjustment plans, 36; cause and effect relationships, 63; the built or natural environment, 65; and sustainable development, 36; and political economy, 25–28 environmental...