Fair Enough?

The structure of contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral Global South to core Northern countries, limiting the developmental potential of the South but enhancing that of the North. This argument is the basis of the theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) and the focus of this PhD dissertation. To interrogate the intellectual rigor and pragmatism of conventional scientific perspectives and discourses from an EUE perspective, a life cycle anal