title: Foreign direct investment, development, and overshoot.
abstract: Overshoot of the earth's carrying capacity is an acute concern for sustainability initiatives that seek to equalize access to the natural resources that are requisite to meet the basic needs of humanity. Demands on nature that exceed ecological capacities compromise critical ecosystem functions that provision the inputs necessary for life. This paper draws on concepts and analytical frameworks from the natural, physical, and social sciences to assess the drivers of sustainability at the global and national level. Integrative theoretical predictions are tested in a structural equation model that advances empirical research on overshoot and outflows of foreign investments that is relatively lacking in the literature. Findings highlight the differential impacts of key aspects of economic globalization on both development and overshoot across nations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Tulane University, 220 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, United States. Electronic address: lauramc@tulane.edu.
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: McKinney
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003906:Developing Countries; D004463:Ecology; D057217:Economic Development; D017753:Ecosystem; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007449:Investments
keywords: Cross-national; Entropy; Foreign direct investment; Overshoot; Structural equation model