The Ecological Modernisation Reader

Author : Arthur P.J. Mol,David A. Sonnenfeld,Gert Spaargaren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000155044

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The Ecological Modernisation Reader by Arthur P.J. Mol,David A. Sonnenfeld,Gert Spaargaren Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur P.J. Mol,David A. Sonnenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317994800

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Ecological Modernisation Around the World by Arthur P.J. Mol,David A. Sonnenfeld Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen C. Young
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415141734

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The Emergence of Ecological Modernisation by Stephen C. Young Pdf

The Emergence of Ecological Modernisation offers a wealth of empirical research material from an international perspective, bringing together previously scattered sources for the first time. It addresses a series of theoretical issues that are of key contemporary relevance, such as the relationship between ecological modernisation and sustainable development; strategies for promoting ecological modernisation, and the extent to which it is possible to 'green' contemporary capitalism.

Author : Maarten A. Hajer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191521065

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The Politics of Environmental Discourse by Maarten A. Hajer Pdf

Dr Hajer's path-breaking study opens the way for a better understanding of the environmental conflict, showing how language can be seen to shape our view of what environmental politics is really about and how those perceptions can differ between countries. The author identifies the emergence and increasing political importance of 'ecological modernization' as a new concept in the language of environmental politics. This concept, which has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s, stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating the technological innovation. Combining abstract social theory with detailed empirical analysis, Martin Hajer illustrates the social and political dynamics of ecological modernization in a detailed analysis of the acid rain controversies in Great Britain and the Netherlands. He concludes by reflecting on the institutional challenge of the environmental politics in the years to come.

Author : Mark J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134616954

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Thinking Through the Environment by Mark J. Smith Pdf

This broad ranging and thought provoking set of readings stresses the diversity of responses in the way the natural environment has been understood and questioned in the modern world.

Author : David Toke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351997881

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China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions by David Toke Pdf

China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world’s population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China, both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world. China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions discusses the prospects for China achieving radical reductions in carbon emissions, within the context of the current economic and political landscape. With a particular focus on technologies such as such as wind power, solar power and electric vehicles, Toke examines how China is transitioning to a state of stable energy consumption via a service-based economy and heavy investment in non-fossil energy sources. The book concludes that China may be set to reduce its carbon emissions by approximately two-thirds by 2050. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of climate change, sustainable development, political science and energy, as well as energy professionals seeking to understand the implications of recent developments in China.

Author : Gareth Dale,Manu V. Mathai,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783604906

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Green Growth by Gareth Dale,Manu V. Mathai,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira Pdf

The discourse of ‘green growth’ has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model. But the green growth project is deeply inadequate, whether assessed against criteria of social justice or the achievement of sustainable economic life upon a materially finite planet. This volume outlines three main lines of critique. First, it traces the development of the green growth discourse quaideology. It asks: what explains modern society’s investment in it, why has it emerged as a master concept in the contemporary conjuncture, and what social forces does it serve? Second, it unpicks and explains the contradictions within a series of prominent green growth projects. Finally, it weighs up the merits and demerits of alternative strategies and policies, asking the vital question: ‘if not green growth, then what?’

Author : Helena Rietmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110749298

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Ecological Modernization in the United Arab Emirates? by Helena Rietmann Pdf

In 2006, the United Arab Emirates initiated the Masdar City project, which was a pre-planned eco-city concentrating on the development and promotion of renewable energy, water and waste management, sustainable building, transportation, and material efficiency. It was the flagship project of what the government considered to be a widespread environmental reform process. This study examines the Masdar City project applying the analytical framework of "ecological modernization" with the help of five "factors", which help to investigate the ongoing reform process. The study finds that Masdar City is more accurately described as an outcome of the Abu Dhabi government’s economic diversification strategy. The project is subject to the political and economic interests of the emirate’s ruling family. Environmental groups operating within the emirate are connected to the government and pursue policy targets determined by the government.

Author : Lutz Mez,Lila Okamura,Helmut Weidner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658274054

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The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany by Lutz Mez,Lila Okamura,Helmut Weidner Pdf

Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technological and institutional capacities for an ecological transformation, but they are lacking an integrated policy strategy to mobilize and organize the existing capacities in favor of structural changes. The focused four policy areas are analyzed in depth and compared by experts from political science.

Author : R. Scott Frey,Paul K. Gellert,Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319897400

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Ecologically Unequal Exchange by R. Scott Frey,Paul K. Gellert,Harry F. Dahms Pdf

At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers with the aim to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis.

Author : Ingolfur Bluhdorn,Ian Welsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317968368

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The Politics of Unsustainability by Ingolfur Bluhdorn,Ian Welsh Pdf

Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues to grow, and the forceful economic development of countries such as China and India reinforces concerns that the world is moving further away from, rather than closer towards the ideal of sustainability. Given the proven failure of ecological modernisation strategies to secure sustainability, the traditional question "How may our established lifestyles and socio-economic practices be made more sustainable?" needs to be supplemented by a second, equally important, question: "How do advanced modern consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?" Put differently, traditional research into the politics of sustainability needs to be supplemented by a new line of research into the politics of unsustainability. Exploring the recent transformation of eco-political discourses and a variety of ways in which the unfolding paradox of sustaining the unsustainable is being managed, the present volume pioneers this new research agenda. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Author : Noel Castree,David Demeritt,Diana Liverman,Bruce Rhoads
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119250623

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A Companion to Environmental Geography by Noel Castree,David Demeritt,Diana Liverman,Bruce Rhoads Pdf

A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography

Author : John Bellamy Foster,Brett Clark,Richard York
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781583672198

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The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster,Brett Clark,Richard York Pdf

Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision—if we don't alter course. In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth environmental sociologists John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical assessment of both the problem and the solution. They argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies in the paradox of wealth in capitalist society, which expands individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the wealth of nature. In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven between human beings and nature, undermining the conditions of sustainable existence: a rift in the metabolic relation between humanity and nature that is irreparable within capitalist society, since integral to its very laws of motion. Critically examining the sanguine arguments of mainstream economists and technologists, Foster, Clark, and York insist instead that fundamental changes in social relations must occur if the ecological (and social) problems presently facing us are to be transcended. Their analysis relies on the development of a deep dialectical naturalism concerned with issues of ecology and evolution and their interaction with the economy. Importantly, they offer reasons for revolutionary hope in moving beyond the regime of capital and toward a society of sustainable human development.

Author : Michael Cahill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134507894

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The Environment and Social Policy by Michael Cahill Pdf

This book demonstrates how environmental concerns are becoming increasingly central to social policy and discusses the roles of central and local government in realtion to environmental issues.

Author : Stephen C. Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1315812541

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The Emergence of Ecological Modernisation by Stephen C. Young Pdf