Environment and global modernity
edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol and Frederick H. Buttel.
Bok Engelsk 2000
| Utgitt | London : : SAGE, , c2000.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xii, 257 p.) : : ill.
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| Opplysninger | "This volume originated out of a conference on 'Social Theory and the Environment' organized under the auspices of the International Sociological Association (ISA) by the Research Group on 'Environment and Society'"--Pref.. - Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 - Introduction: Globalization, Modernity and the Environment; Chapter 2 - Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology: Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society; Chapter 3 - Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity; Chapter 4 - Modern Theories of Society and the Environment: The Risk Society. - Chapter 11 - Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and 'Sustainable Development'Index. - Chapter 5 - Social Constructions and Social Constrictions: Toward Analyzing the Social Construction of 'the Naturalized' as Well as 'the Natural'Chapter 6 - Globalization and Environment: Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization; Chapter 7 - Environmental Social Theory for a Globalizing World Economy; Chapter 8 - The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in 'Double-Risk' Societies: A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy; Chapter 9 - Political Modernization Theory and Environmental Politics; Chapter 10 - Ecological Modernization and Post-Ecologist Politics. - Taking a global perspective, this book argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 0761967664. - 0761967672
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