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Number Volume 3, Issue 3, 1997 Year 1997

5 articles in this issue 

Albert Bergesen, Laura Parisi

This special issue of JWSR presents new research on the environment from a distinctly world-system perspective. World-system studies have recently discovered the environment. The turn toward the environment in any number of disciplines has resulted in the... see more

Pags. 364 - 368  

Tim Bartley, Albert Bergesen

The world-system idea has been used to explain a great deal about national institutional life, from rates of economic growth to changing patterns of schooling. One of the newer areas of interest is the environment. In the following review we examine schol... see more

Pags. 369 - 380  

Sing S. Chew

From its conception the world-systems perspective has been preoccupied with the study of long term global transformations (see for ex., Frank 1968, 1979; Wallerstein 1974; Amin 1974; Wolf, 1982; Chase-Dunn 1989; Chase-Dunn and Hall 1992; Kaplan 1978).2. T... see more

Pags. 381 - 402  

Christopher Chase-Dunn , Thomas D. Hall

This paper describes the role played by anthropogenic ecological degradation in the evolution of world-systems over the past twelve thousand years. We have developed a conceptual apparatus for comparing workd-systems in order to better understand how fund... see more

Pags. 403 - 431  

Thomas J. Burns, Byron L. Davis, Edward L. Kick

Despite the apparent importance of these dynamics, there is relatively little social science theorization and cross-national research on such global environmental issues. There is especially a paucity of cross-national, quantitative research in sociology ... see more

Pags. 432 - 466