The Ecological Modernisation Reader

Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000155044
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Globalización

Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection. Includes a comprehensive introduction to and overview of Ecological Modernisation Theory; original, state-of-the-art review essays by distinguished international scholars; a selection of the best published works and debates from a quarter-century of related social science scholarship; an emphasis on environmental issues in Asian and other emerging economies; and an agenda for continued scholarship, policymaking, and practice. Accessible to students, policymakers, professionals, executives, and others interested in deeply understanding contemporary environmental issues and taking effective action for environmental solutions. Rigorous and sophisticated for use in graduate and advanced studies. Appropriate for courses in Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Geography, Environmental Studies, Environmental Planning, Business, Economics, Asian Studies, Development Studies, and other fields.

Index

Page numbers in italic refer to tables and figures

Aarhus Convention 147, 164, 174

accountability mechanisms 46 5

accounting, environmental 451,452

action theory 302

activism 149

actor groups 159—160, 161

Actor-Network Theory 208, 508

actors 159-160, 161, 303-304, 314; non-state 142, 145-147, 160,461,468

actor-structure dilemma 318

additions and withdrawals 59, 296

advocacy coalitions 462, 470

Africa 11, 111,265, 362, 365, 366, 512. See also Namibia; South Africa

agency, industrial transformation and 300—305

agency theory 302

Agenda 21, 83, 141-142, 160-161, 163-166, 176, 182, 191,265,466

agriculture 74, 348—349; agricultural waste 364, 374, 384, 388; ecological modernisation and 46—47

agro-industrv 365,408

aid agencies 380—382. See also specific agencies

air pollution 5, 48—49, 207, 217, 218; in California 208—225, 229; in China 419, 425—427; in Japan 83; in Taiwan 422; in Vietnam 440,440

air quality. See air pollution

Alexander, Jeffrey 192, 514—515n7

anarchism 510

Andersen, Michael Skou 111—112, 141—155, 484

animal rights 116

anthropocentrism 54, 109, 127, 391, 510

anti-globalisation movement 195

anti-modernist discourse 192, 196, 198, 201

anti-nuclear movement 246—247, 250n8

anti-toxic movements 237—238

appropriate technology 386

Argentina 360

Asia 4, 11, ISO, 265, 362, 363, 366, 367n2, 512. See...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• INTRODUCTION
• PARI ONE Foundations of ecological modernisation theory
• PART TWO Transformations in environmental governance and participation
• PART THREE Greening lifecycles and lifestyles
• PARI FOUR Environmental reform in Asian and other emerging economies
• CONCLUSION
• Index