Global inequality, water pollution, and infant mortality

Jorgenson, Andrew K.

doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2004.01.008

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“…World-systems analysis provides a useful framework for analyzing and explaining various types of environmental outcomes (Bergesen and Bartley 2000;Bergesen and Parisi 1997;Chew 1997;Hornborg 1998Hornborg , 2001; Roberts andGrimes 1999, 2002;Smith 1994). The political-economy of the world-system indicates that modern capitalism is in crisis because it cannot nd solutions to key dilemmas, including the inability to contain ecological destruction 3 (Broswimmer 2002;Bunker 1985;Foster 1999Foster , 2002Jorgenson forthcoming;Jorgenson and Burns 2003;Wallerstein 1999). One can easily and rather convincingly link global modes of production and accumulation with environmental degradation (e.g., extraction of natural resources and multiple forms of pollution).…”

Section: World-systems Analysis Ecostructuralism and The Environmentmentioning

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“…Overshoot generally refers to a condition in which a given population outgrows or out-consumes its ecological carrying capacity (Harper 2001:20). Kentor, and Jorgenson 2003;Dietz and Rosa 1994;Jorgenson forthcoming;Jorgenson and Burns 2003;Rosa and York 2002). By itself, the per capita GDP method does not capture the political-military attributes or international relational characteristics of a country's position in the core-periphery hierarchy of the modern world-system (Chase-Dunn 1998Kentor 2000).…”

Section: The Ecological Footprint: a Missing Piece Of The Puzzlementioning

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Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint

2003

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Consumption and concomitant environmental degradation are among the most pressing global issues confronting us today. This research argues that these problems are embedded within the context of hierarchical interstate relationships and intra-national characteristics in the modern world-system. Using cross-national comparisons among 208 countries, I construct a recursive indirect effects model to estimate the direct, indirect, and total effects of world-system position, domestic inequality, urbanization, and literacy rates on a comprehensive indicator of per capita consumption of natural resources: the ecological footprint. I nd that world-system position has the strongest positive total effect on per capita consumption, followed by urbanization and literacy rates. Domestic inequality, by contrast, has a strong negative total effect on per capita consumption. In a second analysis, I examine the extent to which cross-national variation of consumption levels occurs within different zones of the world-system. I nd and discuss two outliers in the core and one in the periphery, and a relatively high level of variation in the semiperiphery.

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Section: World-systems Analysis Ecostructuralism and The Environmentmentioning

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Section: The Ecological Footprint: a Missing Piece Of The Puzzlementioning

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Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint

2003

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“…For instance, hospital infrastructure and quality (Aguilera and Marrufo, 2007), whether or not the mother is educated (Hobcraft et al, 1984;Song and Burgard, 2011), time between childbirths (Trussell and Pebley, 1984), water pollution (Jorgenson, 2004), environmental factors and condition of mothers (Folasade, 2000), fertility levels, family health programs and female illiteracy (Macinko et al, 2006), and infrastructure (Fay et al, 2005), among others, are some of the proximate determinants of infant mortality. For instance, hospital infrastructure and quality (Aguilera and Marrufo, 2007), whether or not the mother is educated (Hobcraft et al, 1984;Song and Burgard, 2011), time between childbirths (Trussell and Pebley, 1984), water pollution (Jorgenson, 2004), environmental factors and condition of mothers (Folasade, 2000), fertility levels, family health programs and female illiteracy (Macinko et al, 2006), and infrastructure (Fay et al, 2005), among others, are some of the proximate determinants of infant mortality.…”

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Democracy and infant mortality within India: from whether to why

Bellinger

2016

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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How does democratic politics affect infant mortality? The bulk of existing research has debated whether democracies have lower levels of infant mortality than non-democracies. Yet, infant mortality varies as much within countries as it does between countries, suggesting that the political processes affecting infant mortality operate at the subnational level. To shed new light on the debate, this paper examines how three core democratic attributes affect infant mortality within a single democracy: India. I argue that higher levels of political representation, citizens' participation, and electoral competition provide political incentives for elected representatives to reduce infant mortality. The theory is tested on a times-series data set from 15 major Indian states between 1980 and 2011. Overall, the results demonstrate the significance of democratic politics, particularly political representation, in influencing infant mortality.

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“…Nevertheless, the relatively coherent tendency of these studies, most notably Dick and Jorgenson, 2010;Jorgenson and Burns, 2007;Jorgenson, 2003;2004a, 2004b2008;2009c, 2009dJorgenson, and Burns, 2004;Jorgenson and Kuykendall, 2008;Lawrence, 2009;Longo and York, 2008;Mostafa and Nataraajan, 2009;Mostafa, 2010aMostafa, , 2010bNugent, and Shandra, 2009;Shandra, 2007aShandra, , 2007bShandra et al, 2004;andfinally, Shandra et al, 2008, 2009, suggests that there seems to be a strong interaction between transnational capitalist penetration and environmental degradation, especially in third world countries.…”

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The Effects of Globalization on the Environment

Tausch

Heshmati

2018

UKH J SOC SCI

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A B S T R A C TIn multiple standard ordinary least squares regression models, the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the "four freedoms" of goods, capital, labor, and services, are tested on the following indicators of sustainable development: Avoiding net trade of ecological footprint gha per person, carbon emissions per million US dollars gross domestic product, CO 2 per capita, environmental performance index (EPI), global footprint per capita, happy life years, happy planet index (HPI), and ln (number of people per mill inhabitants 1980-2000 killed by natural disasters per year+1). This research shows that the apprehensions of quantitative globalization critical research are fully vindicated by the significant negative environmental effects of the foreign savings rate. High foreign savings are indeed a driver of global footprint and are a blockade against a satisfactory HPI performance. The New International Division of Labor model (Froebel et al., 1980) is one of the prime drivers of high CO 2 per capita emissions. MNC penetration, the master variable of most quantitative dependency theories, blocks environmental performance (EPI-index) and several other socially important processes. Worker remittances have a significant positive effect on the HPI and happy life years.

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Global inequality, water pollution, and infant mortality

Cited by 34 publications

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Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint

Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint

Democracy and infant mortality within India: from whether to why

The Effects of Globalization on the Environment

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