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By Stefano B. Longo,Rebecca Clausen,Brett Clark

ISBN-10: 0813565774

ISBN-13: 9780813565774

ISBN-10: 0813565782

ISBN-13: 9780813565781

Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology booklet Award from the yankee Sociological Association

even though people have lengthy trusted oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and alternate, only in the near past has human effect on those assets dramatically elevated, reworking and undermining oceanic environments in the course of the global. Marine ecosystems are in a challenge that's worldwide in scope, quick in velocity, and enormous in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, sociologists Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark discover the position human effect performs during this hindrance, highlighting the social and monetary forces which are on the center of this looming ecological problem.
 
In a critique of the vintage thought “the tragedy of the commons” by way of ecologist Garrett Hardin, the authors movement past simplistic explanations—such as unrestrained self-interest or inhabitants growth—to argue that it's the commodification of aquatic assets that ends up in the depletion of fisheries and the improvement of environmentally suspect technique of aquaculture. to demonstrate this argument, the ebook positive aspects attention-grabbing case studies—the thousand-year background of the bluefin tuna fishery within the Mediterranean and the large Pacific salmon fishery. Longo, Clausen, and Clark describe how new fishing applied sciences, variations in ships and garage capacities, and the growth of seafood markets mixed to change noticeably and completely those the most important ecosystems. In doing so, the authors underscore how the actual association of social creation contributes to ecological degradation and a rise within the pressures put upon the sea. The authors spotlight the historic, political, monetary, and cultural forces that form how we engage with the bigger biophysical world.
 
A path-breaking research of overfishing, The Tragedy of the Commodity yields perception into concerns comparable to deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollutants, and weather change.
 

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