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Resource Peripheries in the Global EconomyCommodity Chains and Extractive Peripheries: Coal and Development

Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy: Commodity Chains and Extractive Peripheries: Coal and... [This chapter will utilize the raw materialist lengthened global commodity chains model to examine how the coal global commodity chain has shaped extractive peripheries over the last three centuries. Coal is the quintessential “old economy” raw material that powered the Industrial Revolution. Coal was a key ingredient in economic ascent over the past three centuries in Great Britain, the U.S., and Japan and remains essential to economic ascent in the twenty-first century for China and India, despite its contribution to climate change and efforts in many countries to promote a transition toward more sustainable energy systems. After presenting the theoretical model guiding this analysis, the chapter will outline how the role of coal commodity chains has changed over time as they have grown in scale from small localized chains to truly global chains, highlighting the roles that the global coal commodity chain plays in the world economy today and the drivers of change in the coal industry. How do raw materialist lengthened global commodity chains based on the extraction, processing, and consumption of coal shape the extractive peripheries that supply coal?] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Resource Peripheries in the Global EconomyCommodity Chains and Extractive Peripheries: Coal and Development

Part of the Economic Geography Book Series
Editors: Irarrázaval, Felipe; Arias-Loyola, Martín

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84605-3
Pages
21 –44
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84606-0_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter will utilize the raw materialist lengthened global commodity chains model to examine how the coal global commodity chain has shaped extractive peripheries over the last three centuries. Coal is the quintessential “old economy” raw material that powered the Industrial Revolution. Coal was a key ingredient in economic ascent over the past three centuries in Great Britain, the U.S., and Japan and remains essential to economic ascent in the twenty-first century for China and India, despite its contribution to climate change and efforts in many countries to promote a transition toward more sustainable energy systems. After presenting the theoretical model guiding this analysis, the chapter will outline how the role of coal commodity chains has changed over time as they have grown in scale from small localized chains to truly global chains, highlighting the roles that the global coal commodity chain plays in the world economy today and the drivers of change in the coal industry. How do raw materialist lengthened global commodity chains based on the extraction, processing, and consumption of coal shape the extractive peripheries that supply coal?]

Published: Oct 12, 2021

Keywords: Coal; Global commodity chains; Economic ascent; Extractive peripheries; Resource frontiers; Raw materialism

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