Environment and Global Modernity.
Title:
Environment and Global Modernity.
Author:
Spaargaren, Gert.
ISBN:
9781446264904
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series:
SAGE Studies in International Sociology ; v.50
SAGE Studies in International Sociology
Contents:
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 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 -- Chapter 11 - Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and 'Sustainable Development' -- Index.
Abstract:
This accomplished 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. It asks whether there is an emerging consensus between social scientists on the central issues in the debate on environmental change, and if concerns about the environment constitute a major prop to the process of globalization? The book provides a thorough discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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