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Journal articles on the topic "Ecological surplus"
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Wen, Qingzhi, Peng Sun, Qiang Zhang, and Hu Li. "Nonstationary Ecological Instream Flow and Relevant Causes in the Huai River Basin, China." Water 13, no. 4 (February 13, 2021): 484. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13040484.
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Based on the daily precipitation data during 1960–2016 at 72 stations and the daily streamflow data during 1956–2016 at 7 hydrological stations in the Huai River Basin (HRB), China, eco-surplus and eco-deficit under influences of abrupt streamflow behaviors were analyzed using Flow Duration Curve (FDC). The relations between indicators of hydrological alteration (IHA) and ecological indicators (Shannon Index, SI) were quantified, investigating impacts of altered hydrological processes on the evaluations of the ecological instream flow. Besides, we also quantified fractional contributions of climatic indices to nonstationary ecological instream flow using the Generalized Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape (GAMLSS) framework. While the possible impact of human activities on ecological instream flow will be revealed based on land use changes data. The results indicated that: (1) FDC is subject to general decrease due to hydrological alterations, and most streamflow components are lower than 25% FDC. We found increased eco-deficit and decreased eco-surplus due to altered hydrological processes. The FDC of the streamflow in the main stream of the HRB is lower than that along the tributaries of the HRB. Eco-surplus (eco-deficit) changes are in good line with precipitation anomaly changes during the Spring, Autumn and Winter periods. However, the hydrological alterations due to hydrological regulations by the reservoirs are the primary cause behind the mismatch between ecological instream flow and precipitation anomalies during summer; (2) Annual and seasonal eco-surplus (eco-deficit) is decreasing (increasing) and that during winter season is an exception. Although higher eco-surplus in winter than in other seasons, the eco-surplus is decreasing persistently and the 21st century witnessed the lowest eco-surplus along the main stream of the HRB. Meanwhile, the Shannon index indicated decreased ecological diversity across the HRB; (3) The ecological instream flow is highly sensitive to The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Niño 3.4 Sea Surface Temperature Index (Nino3.4). Meanwhile, the ecological instream flow along the mainstream of the HRB is highly sensitive to climate indices. While the ecological instream flow by GAMLSS model has better fitting performance in describing the extreme values and local trends.
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Wang, Yening, Yuantong Jiang, Yuanmao Zheng, and Haowei Wang. "Assessing the Ecological Carrying Capacity Based on Revised Three-Dimensional Ecological Footprint Model in Inner Mongolia, China." Sustainability 11, no. 7 (April 4, 2019): 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11072002.
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Under the concept of green development, accurately mapping ecological carrying capacity to effectively evaluate regional sustainability has already become an important issue in China. This study introduced ecological carrying capacity intensity (ECintensity) based on the revised three-dimensional ecological footprint (3DEF) model to describe the temporal–spatial patterns of three-dimensional ecological carrying capacity (EC3D) in Inner Mongolia in 2010–2016 and to explore factors affecting socioeconomic sustainable development. The results showed that ecological footprint size (EFsize) differed between cities/leagues but changed little during the study period. Ecological footprint depth (EFdepth) far exceeded the original value of 1.00. Ecological carrying capacity (EC) varied in cities/leagues, while ECintensity increased slowly with stronger potential for regional development. Three-dimensional ecological deficits (ED3D) of cities/leagues were divided into five categories: Hohhot, Hulunbuir and Banyannur were in larger ecological surplus; Hinggan was in slight surplus; Baotou, Chifeng, Tongliao, Ulanqab, Xilin Gol and Erdos were in slight deficit; Wuhai was in stronger deficit; and Alxa was in severely intense deficit. Woodland of cities/leagues was continuously in slight ecological surplus, while cropland and grassland had crucial impacts on deficit. There was a significant positive linear correlation between gross domestic product (GDP) and footprint, while a negative correlation was seen with deficit. These results would help coordinate resource utilization and industrial structure adjustment in Inner Mongolia.
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Wei, Wei, Wenlong Li, Yu Song, Jing Xu, Wenying Wang, and Chenli Liu. "The Dynamic Analysis and Comparison of Emergy Ecological Footprint for the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau: A Case Study of Qinghai Province and Tibet." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (October 11, 2019): 5587. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205587.
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The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is experiencing rapid urbanization and ecological degradation, which have led to unsustainable development. It is urgent to conduct a scientifically rigorous study to evaluate its sustainability. Emergy ecological footprint (EEF) is a new modification of ecological footprint based on ecological thermodynamics. This study applied a modified EEF model and three indicators to analyze the sustainability using data collected from Tibet and Qinghai Province during 1995 to 2014. The grey model (GM) was applied to simulate and predict the ecological status of Qinghai and Tibet. Results showed that: (1) the emergy ecological footprint and ecological deficit of Qinghai province increased in general from 1995 to 2014, while Tibet was still sustainable during this period despite the fact that its ecological surplus decreased; (2) the three sustainability indicators indicate that Qinghai and Tibet are moving away from sustainability; (3) the ecological deficit of Qinghai will keep increasing and the ecological surplus of Tibet will keep decreasing from 2015 to 2024. Finally, several suggestions were proposed to protect the local environment and restore ecological functions in these regions.
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Li, Cheng Ying, Zhi Qi Gong, Rui Ding, Ying Li, and Bo Kun Chen. "The Land Use Sustainability in Xining which Based on Ecological Footprint Model." Advanced Materials Research 955-959 (June 2014): 1755–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.955-959.1755.
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Based on ecological footprint model, this paper calculated the ecological footprint and the ecological carrying capacity and ecological surplus of 2000 ~ 2012 years in Xining,the results showed that the current land use in Xining City is the absolute ecological deficit,which indicate that the land development in Xining is being away from the sustainability .
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Huang, Feng, and Zhigang Yu. "Fuzzy Evaluation in Planning and Construction of Ecological Small Towns Absorbing Surplus Rural Labor." Open House International 43, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2018-b0021.
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Ecological small towns can attract a large number of rural surplus labors and ease the population pressure, how to carry out the planning and construction ecological town becomes a hotspot of research. Based on this, planning and construction of ecological small towns absorbing surplus rural labor based on fuzzy evaluation method were proposed. First of all, planning and construction of small towns under the concept of ecology were elaborated; and then the planning and construction strategies of small towns integrating ecological concepts were put forward, including the utilization of water resources, ecological the landscape and transportation planning; at the same time, a project for ecological small town in Hebei Province was taken as an example for the planning and design; in addition, the planning objectives and layout planning were analyzed and evaluated by fuzzy evaluation method, and the results confirmed the success of planning and design.
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Zhang, Ying, and Shan Shan Li. "The Time-Series Study of Xiangjiang River Water Carrying Capacity Based on the Ecological Footprint of Water Resource — The ChangZhuTan Region, for Example." Advanced Materials Research 518-523 (May 2012): 4362–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.518-523.4362.
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This paper is based on "the method of ecological footprint of water resource" and through establishing "ecological footprint of water resource" model to analyze the water resources utilization of ChangZhuTan region, Xiangjiang River. Time-series is applied to researching the water resources utilization of ChangZhuTan region , Xiangjiang River from 2003 to 2009. Meanwhile, the indicators like ecological footprint of water resource and so on in the following 6 years are predicted. Ecological footprint of water resource per ten thousand yuan GDP is introduced to analyze the water utilization efficiency of ChangZhuTan Region, Xiangjiang River quantitively. The result shows that, from 2003 to 2009, the water resources of ChangZhuTan Region, Xiangjiang River is in the state of ecological Surplus, but the ecological surplus value decreases year by year, which means that the sustainable utilization of Xiangjiang River is getting worse. The prediction also shows that the ecological footprint of water resource per ten thousand yuan GDP will increase year by year in the next 6 years, which means that the water utilization will be less efficient.
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Zhong, Xiaoyong, Dongyan Guo, and Hongyi Li. "Quantitative Assessment of Horizontal Ecological Compensation for Cultivated Land Based on an Improved Ecological Footprint Model: A Case Study of Jiangxi Province, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 5 (March 6, 2023): 4618. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054618.
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Cultivated land horizontal ecological compensation is an essential means of reconciling agricultural ecosystem protection and regional economic development. It is important to design a horizontal ecological compensation standard for cultivated land. Unfortunately, there are some defects in the existing quantitative assessments of horizontal cultivated land ecological compensation. In order to raise the accuracy of ecological compensation amounts, this study established an improved ecological footprint model based on the ecosystem service function, focused on estimating the value of ecosystem service function, ecological footprint, ecological carrying capacity, ecological balance index and ecological compensation values of cultivated land in all cities of Jiangxi province. It then analyzed the rationality of ecological compensation amounts in Jiangxi province, which is one of the 13 provinces of major grain-producing areas in China. The results show the following: (1) The total value of soil conservation service function, carbon sequestration and oxygen release service function and ecosystem service function in Jiangxi province showed a spatial distribution trend of “gradually increasing around Poyang Lake Basin”. (2) The cultivated land ecological deficit areas in Jiangxi province are Nanchang City, Jiujiang City and Pingxiang City; ecological surplus areas are Yichun City, Ji’an City and eight other cities; and there is an obvious “Spatial Agglomeration” phenomenon in ecological deficit and ecological surplus areas where ecological deficit areas are mainly concentrated in the northwest region of Jiangxi. (3) The amount needed to attain fair ecological compensation for cultivated land is 5.2 times the payment amount for cultivated land; this indicated there is larger arable land, a favorable condition for agricultural cultivation, and better supply capacity of ecosystem services in most of the cities of Jiangxi. (4) The compensation amount for cultivated land ecological surplus areas in Jiangxi province is generally higher than the cost of ecological protection, and its proportion in GDP, fiscal revenue and agriculture-related expenditure is significantly higher than that in ecological deficit areas; this indicated that the compensation value of cultivated land could play the driving role in the protective behavior for cultivated land. The results provide a theoretical and methodological reference for the construction of horizontal ecological compensation standards for cultivated land.
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Oenema, O., L. van Liere, S. Plette, T. Prins, H. van Zeijts, and O. Schoumans. "Environmental effects of manure policy options in The Netherlands." Water Science and Technology 49, no. 3 (February 1, 2004): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2004.0172.
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This study explores the effects of manure policy options for agricultural land in The Netherlands on nitrate leaching to groundwater, ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions to the atmosphere and on eutrophication of surface waters. The implementation of the farm gate balance MINAS at farm level, with levy-free N surpluses in the range of 300 to 40 kg per ha per year, and levy-free P surpluses in the range of 17.5 to 0.4 kg of P per ha per year, have been examined. Results indicate that nitrate concentrations in the upper groundwater are related to N surplus, land use, soil type and groundwater level. On dry sandy soils, the N surplus has to be below 60 to 140 kg of N per ha per year, depending on land use, to decrease the nitrate concentrations in the upper groundwater to below 50 mg nitrate per litre. Decreases of N and P concentrations in surface waters, upon lowering levy-free surpluses appear relatively small. For improving the ecological state of surface waters, we recommend a combination of low levy-free N and P surpluses with dredging P rich sediments, flushing of ditches, and decreasing discharges from other sources.
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Erturk, Emre. "Ecological Surplus and Its Economic Implications: A Three Country Study." International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review 7, no. 3 (2011): 397–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/cgp/v07i03/59449.
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Apriyeni, Baiq Ahda Razula. "ANALISIS TAPAK EKOLOGI UNTUK ARAHAN PEMANFAATAN RUANG PULAU LOMBOK." TATALOKA 19, no. 1 (February 28, 2017): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/tataloka.19.1.68-81.
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This study aims to 1) Calculate the ecological footprint in Lombok Island through Supply and Demand approach by GFN (Global Footprint Network), Land Suitability and Spatial Planning, 2) Evaluate and assess the three approaches to calculate the value of the ecological footprint, 3) Formulate the direction of spatial use based on the calculation of the ecological footprint. Based on the calculation of the ecological footprint and biocapasity by three approaches found that the results showed Lombok Island was categorized into three categories deficit ecological area: surplus territory (based GFN approach), surplus territory (based on land suitability approach), and deficit area (based on Spatial Planning approach). Of the three approaches of ecological footprint used, Spatial Planning approach was the most realistic to describe the condition of the ecological footprint in Lombok Island. As for the direction of spatial use based on the ecological footprint in Lombok Island was as follows: 1) Agricultural land needs an additional area of 121,305 ha, 2) Farm land area is reduced by 181,031 ha, 3) Fishery land needs an additional area of 248,429 ha, 4) Forest land needs an additional area of 151,439 ha, 5) Developed land needs an additional area of 159,132 ha, and 6) Land which serve as an sequestration needs an additional area of 14,024 ha
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ecological surplus"
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Dwarkasing, Chandni. "Essays on Ecological Economics and The Metabolic Rift Theory." Doctoral thesis, Università di Siena, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1144470.
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Ecological disruptions such as climate change, pollution, waste build-up and rapid biodiversity loss are generally seen as the result of human activity; economically, socially and culturally determined. When it comes to the economy, heterodox macroeconomic tools and models are becoming prominent. They provide assessments and scenarios which focus on the complex interactions between the economy and carbon emissions as well as the potential impact of climate policies on both the economy and climate change itself. At the same time, we witness the increasing recognition of the incompatibility between capitalism as a socio-economic system and ecological restoration among non-economic scholars. But the specific theories that criticize the ecological consequences of capitalism from a Marxist vantage point have yet to formally manifest themselves in the field of Economics, all whilst the opportunity to do so is fairly imaginable.
This dissertation provides an introduction to the modern synthesis between Marx and Ecology. It discusses its historical on-set in the second half of the nineteenth century and highlights its key-theoretical concepts: the metabolic rift theory and the ecological surplus. One of the reasons behind the absence of the metabolic rift theory Ecological Economics is related to the asserted incompatibility between Marx and Ecology in the 1980s. By providing some insights that counter these accusations the dissertation sheds light on the conceivable benefit of these considerations in the realm of Ecological Economics. The main result of this dissertation is the formalization of the metabolic rift theory such as to provide the field of Ecological Economics with a more complete approach to the representation of economy-ecology configurations. Before laying out an alternative, the status-quo of current mathematical formalization practices in the field of Ecological Economics is discussed and reinterpreted by means of Marx’s labour process theory and the distinction between appropriated and capitalized contributions to production processes. The proposed alternative to the formal representation of economy-ecology configurations draws on methods belonging to social metabolism studies (MuSIASEM) and the neo-Ricardian surplus approach.
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Larsson, Daniel. "GET YOUR FISTS IN THE SOIL AND PRAISE THY LORD : examines sustainable functions for another workwear." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17073.
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This work examines sustainable functions for another workwear. It argues fora culture shift within many fields: private, politically, global, local as well as infashion. The background is earth and human beings current situation whichneeds to be changed in order to create a sustainable living. This is understoodin the ecological, sociocultural and economical sustainable model and contextualixedfor agricultural workwear.The issue of construction methods in workwear is examined and understoodin relationship to the non-rationale and aesthetical function; the need to workand the need to dwell.New ideas of rationale function workwear is proposed which argues for theneed of a greater look upon sustainability and non-rationale ideas within thefield of current workwear.This includes:1. Construction methods for a. Greater movement, b. Fewer stretch pointswithin garments and c. Advanced vs. simplicity.2. Aesthetic forms exploring a. Aesthetic as sustainable, b.The two natures ofworking and dwelling spoken is terms of construction and empty space, c.Different cultures of old and new.3. Material: a. sustainable raw fibers as organic Hemp and Cotton b. Secondhand material as deadstock, surplus and waste, c. Performing materials fordifferent occasions4.Colour and structure: a. Bio-organic natural Indigo dyeing vats, b. Dyeingwith natural dyes as Madder, Brazil Wood and Acorns on cellulose basedmaterial, c. D.I.Y coating with Beewax, Flax Oil and Parafine, d. The spectrumof new/clean and patina of age/worn.which all are used as expressive research tools to understand different perspectivesof sustainable function for another workwear within a culture shift;the background of the past, the beauty of life and finally proposals for a futureseen as the ecological age.Program: Modedesignutbildningen
Book chapters on the topic "Ecological surplus"
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Hinton, Jennifer B. "A Not-For-Profit Economy for a Regenerative Sustainable World." In Transformation Literacy, 187–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93254-1_13.
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AbstractThis chapter offers an overview and explanation of how society’s relationship-to-profit plays a significant role in determining social and ecological outcomes. The way in which societies relate to profit plays out in terms of both formal and informal institutions. One formal institution that is key for sustainability is relationship-to-profit, the legal difference between for-profitand not-for-profit forms of business. This chapter explains how relationship-to-profit, as a basic building block of the entire economy, plays a critical role in determining whether the economy drives sustainability crises or allows for meeting everyone’s needs within the ecological limits of the planet. This analysis reveals that the social and ecological crises of the twenty-first century have the same driver: the pursuit and accumulation of private wealth inherent in the for-profit economy. Yet, existent not-for-profit types of business offer a viable way out of this conundrum. In a market composed of not-for-profit businesses, all economic activity and profit would be oriented toward social benefit, keeping financial and material resources circulating to where they are most needed. The financial surplus of business activity would not accumulate in the hands of a few owners, as it does in the for-profit economy.
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Bellanca, Nicolò, and Luca Pardi. "Il capitalismo manageriale e la nuova centralità del potere sociale." In Studi e saggi, 69–91. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2.08.
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Capitalism, in order to reproduce itself, must allocate more and more resources to the enhancement of the wealth already produced, rather than to increasing productive investments. The strategies for absorbing the surplus range from the reduction of supply to the creation of waste, from public spending to financialization. With the prevalence of these strategies, capitalism renounces to the maximum possible economic expansion in favour of its maximum expansion on society. It is a change that has consequences for environmental issues. The model of pure capitalism, in which the entire surplus is directed towards growth, is ecologically unsustainable. In today's historical capitalism, the goal of economic growth remains important, but it falls within that of increasing social power. Whether this is good or bad news for our biosphere will be discussed in other Chapters. Here we analyze the novelty.
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Ghilarducci, Teresa. "Producer surplus." In Dictionary of Ecological Economics, 430. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.p.73.
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Quinn, Terrance J. "Consumer surplus." In Dictionary of Ecological Economics, 95. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.c.95.
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"6. Herbert Marcuse: Basic and Surplus Alienation." In Denaturalizing Ecological Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442673830-008.
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Keating, Jennifer. "Rural Settlement and the Question of Surplus." In On Arid Ground, 98–130. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855251.003.0004.
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Slavic peasant migrants arrived in Turkestan with increasing speed and quantity by the turn of the twentieth century, lured by the prospect of fertile valleys and irrigated land, and brought to the region aboard railway carriages on newly laid tracks. This chapter explores this wave of rural settlement, examining the discursive value of greening and its links to identity, alongside the ecological impact of migrant agriculture and its sociopolitical consequences. Chief was the state’s co-option of migration to champion a political project that foresaw the establishment of a new agrarian settler colony. Kazakh and Kyrgyz pastoralists bore the brunt of land confiscation in the valleys of Syr-Dar’ia and Semirech’e: their petitions to the state attest to the slow violence of displacement as tensions increased between rural communities over access to pasture, water, and transhumance routes. In tracing the environmental roots of pastoralist marginalization, the chapter explores the dual processes of planting and settling, and at the same time investigates ideas of ‘surplus’ and ‘abundance’ that underpinned physical mobility, agricultural labour, and ecological dispossession.
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Keating, Jennifer. "Ecological Afterlives and Natural Tribute." In On Arid Ground, 131–56. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855251.003.0005.
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Just like infrastructure construction, land reclamation, and rural settlement, conversions from the animate to the inanimate, from living plant or animal to commodified resource were activities that offer insight into the political ecology of empire. The first of two chapters that focus on Turkestan as a commodity frontier, Chapter 4 considers the commodification of Central Asian nature by the state, settlers, and local communities. In doing so, it briefly discusses Turkestan’s famed ‘white gold’—cotton—but also looks at far broader contours of commodities including minerals, fruit, cereal, and vegetable crops. Exploring the social, political, and economic capital located in these resources, the chapter considers ideas about ‘abundance’, ‘value’, ‘tribute’, and ‘surplus’, and varied readings of resources by imperial actors, often external to Turkestan, who sought material recompense for the expenses of military conquest and budget deficits. Looking beyond the sale and transport of resources, however, towards the local display of commodities at exhibitions reveals that the afterlives of animals and plants were embedded in a range of conversations beyond imperial economic interest, becoming touchstones for assertions of regional agency, identity, enrichment, and community that often cut across settler and Central Asian societies.
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Cheng, Li, Jin Zhu, and Xiaohui He. "Evaluation of Sustainable Development of Baotou City Based on Ecological Footprint." In Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering. IOS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/atde220306.
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The ecological footprint model was used in this paper to evaluate the sustainable development status of Baotou City by calculating the ecological footprint, ecological carrying capacity and ecological deficit/surplus in 2018. The results showed that: (1) In 2018, the per capita ecological footprint of Baotou City was 1.11506 ha, the per capita ecological carrying capacity was 0.8371 ha. There is 0.2780 ha ecological deficit, which is in a fragile and unsustainable development state; (2) The demand for farmland, grassland and fossil energy land is large, but the carrying capacity of grassland is limited; (3) Coking coal, raw coal and coal washing, account for 99% of the energy demand footprint; Residents’ needs of dairy and meat in the diet structure makes the demand of the grassland to achieve total footprint almost a third; (4) The fossil energy land, construction land and water footprint per capita ranked higher, and footprint is greater than the carrying capacity; Regional sustainability is weak, and need adjust the structure of energy consumption, residents’ diet, control of urban sprawl to guarantee the sustainable development of city.
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Howard, Penny McCall. "‘You just can’t get a price’ The difference political economy makes." In Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784994143.003.0006.
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Chapter Five focuses on the structuring effect of political economy on commercial fishers in Scotland (and elsewhere). It outlines how sea creatures like crabs and lobsters were made into tradeable commodities, and how commodity relations affected ownership of boats and gear, and the distribution of fishing surplus among owners and crew. Commodity relations extended to the commodification of people’s own labour, and permeated and structured social relations between fishermen, generating new forms of class relations. Following Henry Bernstein’s key questions of political economy, the chapter investigates ‘who owns what’ and ‘who gets what’ and how these relations have changed historically. Over time, ownership of boats has been centralised and the fishing share system has been modified so that owners appropriated a greater portion of the fishing surplus. The position of crew has moved in the opposite direction, as they have shifted from being part owners of boats and gear, to a pool of casual waged labourers, to migrant workers (mainly Filipino) on very low wages. In ecological terms, commodity relations encouraged a strategy of catching tiny prawns in bulk, a fishing strategy which is facilitated the employment of low-waged fishers.
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Baek, Jiewon. "Introduction." In Fictional Labor, 1–28. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781802070422.003.0001.
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The setting for Fictional Labor combines both the physical and virtual spaces of modern cities: Paris, Lodève, Fameck, unnamed banlieues and commercial zones, and the information space of the Internet. This setting reveals a melancholic civilization suffering from the adverse effects of neoliberal politics, digital automation, and marketing industries, including the proletarianization of knowledge and sensibility. The question is how the creative work of generating a positive will and motive for living is possible in the absence of ethos. The book’s methodology combines close analyses of literature and the visual arts with political, ecological, and economic perspectives on the meaning of labor under capitalism. By offering a new sense of cultural production as labor, the theory of fictional labor foregrounds the ethical formation of sensibility to alterity. Each of the four chapters that follow presents a figural instantiation of fictional labor: surplus-word, mask, vector, and savage-word.
Conference papers on the topic "Ecological surplus"
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Hunt, Adrian P., and Spencer G. Lucas. "Diverse Vertebrate Coprolite Locality From the Upper Pennsylvanian of Central New Mexico Provides Data on the Temporal Distribution and Ecological Context of the Shark Surplus Paradox." In 2016 New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting. Socorro, NM: New Mexico Geological Society, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.56577/sm-2016.447.
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