2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.014
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Reversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of “ecological debt” and its value for environmental justice

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“…Secondly, countries that import more resources than they export are responsible for parts of the trade partner's ecological debt, and they avoid environmental pressure on their domestic environments. These aspects provide a framework for a quantitative investigation of intra-and inter-generational equity (Brundtland et al 1987) and relate to the aspects defined by Martinez-Alier (2002) recently reviewed by Warlenius et al (2015). Equity, as understood here, remains merely a theoretical target, but is useful to calculate which countries have made disproportionate use of global resources.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…Secondly, countries that import more resources than they export are responsible for parts of the trade partner's ecological debt, and they avoid environmental pressure on their domestic environments. These aspects provide a framework for a quantitative investigation of intra-and inter-generational equity (Brundtland et al 1987) and relate to the aspects defined by Martinez-Alier (2002) recently reviewed by Warlenius et al (2015). Equity, as understood here, remains merely a theoretical target, but is useful to calculate which countries have made disproportionate use of global resources.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Researchers argue that unjust regulatory conditions between Northern and Southern countries in the exchange of resources are the main reason why the global North is indebted to the South in ecological terms (Warlenius et al 2015). Here we quantify the net trade of physical resources at the country level over the period of 1950-2010.…”
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“…The EUE perspective leads to the logical if radical claim that the North owes the South an 'ecological debt ' (cf. Bond 2010;Paredis et al 2004;Rice 2009b;Warlenius et al 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%