The Environmental Variable In The Core-Periphery Relational Axis According To The World-System Theoretical Perspective. An Analysis On Latin American Roles In Its Relation With The Core Of The World-Systems

Abstract

This article aims to add the Environmental Crisis as a variable in the core-periphery relational axis according to the theoretical perspective of the World-Systems Analysis in the search of identifying potential changes in its flows and in Latin American roles as a peripheral region. Throughout a literature review, the main references of the World Systems Analysis theoretical perspective regarding the Environmental Crisis phenomenon are searched for; the main defining aspects of the core-periphery relational axis according to the World-System Analysis are identified and described; some effects and consequences of the Environmental Crisis – which are lay out by Latin-American intellectuals linked to the ECLAC – that are potential change factors between core and periphery are set out: in addition, a relation between those change factors and determined elements and problematic precedents of the Ecuadorian Yasuní ITT Initiative -a global environmental proposal- is offered.