Ecological Modernization and Contemporary Swedish Environmental Policy Reform
Author: Benjamin J. Vail
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 166
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Globalization and Environmental Reform
Author: Arthur P. J. Mol
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780262632843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA balanced look at globalization and its potential environmental effects, both destructive and beneficial.
Sweden and ecological governance
Author: Lennart Lundqvist
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1847796087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Sweden is seen as a forerunner in environmental and ecological policy. Sweden and ecological governance is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance, and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether or not it is possible to move from a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the ‘Sustainable Sweden’ programme. The study begins by looking at the spatial dimensions of ecological governance, and goes on to consider the integration and effectiveness of sustainable development policies. It analyses the tension between democracy and sustainable development, which has a broader relevance beyond the Swedish model, to other nation states as well as the European Union as a whole. In this book the author offers the latest word in advanced implementation of sustainable development by a front-runner in environmental and ecological policy. It will be useful for students of environmental politics and sustainable development researchers.
Ecological Modernisation Around the World
Author: Arthur P.J. Mol
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1317994795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Environmental Sociology
Author: Leslie King
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-02-18
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1538116790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action is designed to pique students’ interest in environmental issues and to illustrate how sociological perspectives can help us better understand the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to environmental problems.
The Environmental State Under Pressure
Author: Arthur P. J. Mol
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2002-04-18
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780762308545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1980s, the ideologies of deregulation and privatization formed the start of the debate on the "environmental state" and the 1990s left the debate facing new challenges. This text examines the processes, transformations and continuities related to the topic.
Ecological Modernisation Around the World
Author: Arthur P.J. Mol
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1317994809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Society And The Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective
Author: U. Svedin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-02-22
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789401128001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, research efforts devoted to sustainable development were promoted by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN). With its fifteen essays by Swedish scholars on different aspects of society -- environment interface, giving various analyses of and prospects for the concept of sustainable development -- this book is a result of those efforts. The authors represent a spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary approaches in the field of ecology, economy and environment. They are economists, ecologists, engineers, anthropologists, physicists, geographers, political scientists, science theorists and educationalists discussing sustainable development and the future of society and the environment. The question is also raised whether there is a special Swedisch `touch' -- with a `responsibility for the world' ethos -- to the approach to environmental issues, especially as seen through the efforts of the research community.
Discourses of Global Climate Change
Author: Jonas Anshelm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1317671058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the arguments made by political actors in the creation of antagonistic discourses on climate change. Using in-depth empirical research from Sweden, a country considered by the international political community to be a frontrunner in tackling climate change, it draws out lessons that contribute to the worldwide environmental debate. The book identifies and analyses four globally circulated discourses that call for very different action to be taken to achieve sustainability: Industrial fatalism, Green Keynesianism, Eco-socialism and Climate scepticism. Drawing on risk society and post-political theory, it elaborates concepts such as industrial modern masculinity and ecomodern utopia, exploring how it is possible to reconcile apocalyptic framing to the dominant discourse of political conservatism. This highly original and detailed study focuses on opinion leaders and the way discourses are framed in the climate change debate, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of environmental communication and media, global environmental policy, energy research and sustainability.
Redeploying Urban Infrastructure
Author: Jonathan Rutherford
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 3030178870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how socio-technical arrangements of energy and water provision are being recast in continuing efforts towards realising ‘sustainable’ transformation of cities. It critically investigates how infrastructure comes to matter by analyzing the shifting capacities and entanglements of diverse actors with these systems, the various means they use to envision, enact and contest changes, and the wide-ranging social and political implications of emerging infrastructure transitions. Drawing on original research into urban infrastructure debates and projects in Stockholm and Paris, the author develops a novel conceptual framework for studying and acknowledging the active, vital role of infrastructure in constituting a material politics of urban transformation. Straddling the latest theoretical insights and empirical investigation of urban planning practice and socio-technical engineering of systems and flows, Redeploying Urban Infrastructure forges new, timely reflections and perspectives which will be of interest to the growing multidisciplinary community of scholars investigating infrastructure and to academics and practitioners with a concern for understanding the wider politics of urban futures.
