This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are
counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of …

This article surveys the emergence of theories of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) and
outlines the implications of an EUE perspective for a materialist conceptualization of trade …

Ecological debt is usually conceptualized as the accumulated result of different kinds of
uneven flows of natural resources and waste, but these flows are seldom referred to as …

Technologies developed since the late eighteenth century differ from earlier forms of
technology by being as dependent on world market prices of labour, land and other …

Land was an unambiguous constraint for growth in the pre-industrial period. In Britain it was
overcome partly through the transition from traditional land-based goods to coal (vertical …

This paper attempts to assemble a conceptual framework for understanding to what extent
an energy technology is simply a way of putting nature to work, and to what extent it is a way …

The paper aims to analyze climate change adaptation projects funded from international
cooperation in Veracruz, which is a Mexican state. They used 5 criteria based on …

Baltic trade is one of the key examples of flourishing economic activity in early modern
European history. This study empirically outlines the role of comparative resource …

The British colonies, which contributed the lion's share of Britain's geographical expansion
during the nineteenth century, also provided the largest material contribution to Britain's …

“Development” was once imagined as the path by which former colonies could become as
affluent as the nations that colonized them. It was conceived as an economic and …