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Title:
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Spatial polarization of the ecological footprint distribution
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Author:
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Teixidó Figueras, Jordi Josep; Duro Moreno, Juan Antonio
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Other authors:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia; Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
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Abstract:
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The international allocation of natural resources is determined, not by any ethical or ecological
criteria, but by the dominance of market mechanisms. From a core-periphery perspective, this
allocation may even be driven by historically determined structural patterns, with a core group of
countries whose consumption appropriates most available natural resources, and another group,
having low natural resource consumption, which plays a peripheral role. This article consists of an
empirical distributional analysis of natural resource consumption (as measured by Ecological
Footprints) whose purpose is to assess the extent to which the distribution of consumption responds to
polarization (as opposed to mere inequality). To assess this, we estimate and decompose different
polarization indices for a balanced sample of 119 countries over the period 1961 to 2007. Our results
points toward a polarized distribution which is consistent with a core-periphery framework.
Keywords: Polarization, Core-Periphery, Ecological Footprint |
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Publication date:
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2014 |
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Subject (UDC):
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33 - Economia |
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Subject(s):
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Recursos naturals -- Gestió
Consum (Economia) -- Aspectes ambientals
Medi ambient -- Indicadors
Home -- Influència sobre la natura |
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Rights:
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L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
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Pages:
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33 p. |
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Document type:
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Working Paper |
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Published by:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia
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Collection:
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Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2014-08
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