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Position of Central and Eastern Europe in Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Implications for Research and Social movements
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Despite both practical and theoretical challenges, ecological modernisation theory and the associated policy framework of “green growth” remain dominant approaches to sustainability in many CEE countries. Drawing on recent literature in the fields of social-ecological economics, political economy and world-systems analysis, I will argue that the dependent integration of these countries in the world economy and semi-peripheral position in global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange make these western-centric approaches of only limited relevance for this context. I will suggest that approaches informed by post-growth economics, the community economies approach and labour environmentalism can be more productive, and try to elucidate on concrete examples how they can orient both research and policy towards otherwise neglected just transition pathways. |
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