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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 9166 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Environmental harm and the political economy of consumption.
Author: Rob White
Publication: Social Justice (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Crime and Social Justice Associates
Page: 82(21)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Introduction
THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT ADEQUATE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL HARM MUST proceed from sustained analysis of the basic institutions and structures of contemporary capitalism. The central question at the core of environmental degradation and destruction is the organization of human subsistence and the relationship of this to nature. The article thus demonstrates the centrality of capitalist political economy to the construction of the substantive problem (environmental harm) and to the limitations of existing regulatory regimes in relation to this problem.
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