Muradian, Roldan; Folchi, Mauricio; Martinez-Alier, Joan - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 3, pp. 321-339
This paper describes some historical features of the global economic geography of copper, and explores the conditions … more dependent on imports from developing countries to cover internal copper demand. In contrast, copper production in the … USA has considerably increased during recent decades. During the 1990s, there was a boom of Latin American copper exports …