Ecological Modernisation Around the World

Perspectives and Critical Debates
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7146-5064-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Environmental Politics

The idea of ecological modernisation originated in Western Europe in the 1980s, gaining attention around the world by the late 1990s. At the core of this social scientific and policy-oriented approach is the view that contemporary societies have the capability of dealing with their environmental crises. Experiences in some countries demonstrate that modern institutions can incorporate environmental interests into their daily routines. Elsewhere, economic and political interests dominate development trajectories and environmental deterioration continues, challenging the premises of ecological modernisation. This volume brings together research on ecological modernisation practices around the world. Studies on Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia examine the applicability of this approach to advanced industrial countries, transitional economies and developing countries respectively. Authors critically examine the premises of ecological modernisation theory, assess its value for understanding past and present environmental transformations, and outline paths for designing future sustainable development. Taken together, the studies in collected this volume offer significant refinements, extensions and critiques of ecological modernisation theory and suggest important directions for future research on social and policy dimensions of environmental change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mol, Arthur P.J.

Sonnenfeld, David A.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Arthur P.J. Mol and David A. Sonnenfeld, "Ecological Modernisation Theory around the world: an introduction"
Theoretical Perspectives

2. Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren, "Ecological modernisation in debate: a review"

3. Gert Spaargaren and Bas J.M. van Vliet, "Lifestyles, consumption and the environment. The ecological modernisation of domestic consumption"

4. Maurie Cohen, "Ecological modernisation, environmental knowledge, and national character"
Case Studies from Around the World

Advanced Industrial Countries

5. David Pellow, Allan Schnaiberg, and Adam Weinberg, "Putting the ecological modernisation thesis to the test: the promises and performance of urban recycling" (USA)

6. Pekka Jokinen, "Europeanisation and ecological modernisation: agri-environmental policy and practices in Finland"

Transitional Economies

7. Leonardus Rinkevicius, "Ecological modernisation as cultural politics: transformations of the civic environmental activism in Lithuania"

8. Zsuzsa Gille, "Legacy of waste or wasted legacy? The end of industrial ecology in postsocialist Hungary"

Developing Countries

9. David A. Sonnenfeld, "Contradictions of ecological modernisation: pulp and paper manufacturing in South-East Asia"

10. Jos Frijns, Phung Thuy Phuong and Arthur P.J. Mol, "Ecological modernisation theory and industrialising economies: the case of Viet Nam"

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld