Articles | Volume 75, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-183-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-183-2020
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23 Jun 2020
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Global production networks and natural resource extraction: adding a political ecology perspective

Felix M. Dorn and Christoph Huber

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This article examines how to adapt the global production network (GPN) approach to situations of natural resource extraction. Therefore, we integrate a political ecology perspective into GPN research. The integrated framework helps to move away from merely economic analyses and to identify the underlying emergence of unilateral dependencies, declines of social autonomy and the unequal distribution of environmental risks.