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	Treadmill of Production Analysis	Environmental Commodity Chain Analysis
Област	Environmental Sociology	Environmental Sociology
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Година на възникване	1980	1994
Създател	Allan Schnaiberg	Gary Gereffi (commodity-chain framework); applied to environment by political ecology and ecological economics
Тип	Political-economy framework and qualitative analytic pipeline for environmental degradation	Network-tracing pipeline linking consumption to distant environmental impacts
Основополагащ източник	Schnaiberg, A. (1980). The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195026115	Gereffi, G. (1994). The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks. In G. Gereffi & M. Korzeniewicz (Eds.), Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (pp. 95-122). Greenwood Press. ISBN: 9780313289149
Други названия	Treadmill of Production, Schnaiberg Treadmill, Production Treadmill Framework, ToP Analysis	Green Commodity Chain Analysis, Global Value Chain Environmental Analysis, Ecological Commodity Chain Analysis, Follow-the-Thing Environmental Analysis
Свързани	4	3
Резюме	Treadmill of production analysis is a political-economy framework that explains environmental degradation as the structural outcome of capitalism's built-in imperative to expand production and accumulate capital. Allan Schnaiberg introduced it in his 1980 book The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity, arguing that competitive markets compel firms to reinvest profits in ever more capital-intensive and energy-intensive production, generating accelerating ecological withdrawals of resources and additions of pollution. The metaphor of a treadmill captures the way the system must keep running, expanding output, just to stay in place, so that environmental harm is not an accident but a systemic requirement. Crucially, Schnaiberg saw labor and the state as drawn into the same growth logic, since workers depend on the jobs growth provides and governments depend on the revenue and legitimacy it generates, forming a coalition that perpetuates the treadmill. Gould, Pellow, and Schnaiberg's 2004 article restated and defended the theory, clarifying its structure, its focus on production over consumption, and its evolution under globalization. The framework remains a cornerstone of critical environmental sociology and a counterpoint to ecological-modernization optimism.	Environmental commodity chain analysis applies the global commodity chain (later global value chain) framework, originated by Gary Gereffi, to the question of who bears the ecological costs of production and consumption. Gereffi's insight was that globally dispersed production is organized into chains coordinated by lead firms, and that chains differ in their governance: producer-driven chains are steered by manufacturers, buyer-driven chains by retailers and brand owners who set prices, quality, and standards for their suppliers. Environmental analysts extend this by tracing a commodity from extraction through processing to consumption and attaching environmental loads, such as deforestation, emissions, and water use, to each node. Because the demand and the value capture often sit at the consuming end while the heaviest environmental burdens fall at the producing end, the method makes visible the geographic displacement of ecological costs that underlies global trade.