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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.
Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity
Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity
Introduction
The central task for environmental sociologists is to relate the changing environmental profile of modernity to the changing character of modern societies themselves. In doing so environmental sociologists can profit from insights which result from the debate on ‘modernization theory’ within the social sciences. This holds true even when the confrontation with the environmental crisis brings out the need for a partial de- and reconstruction of modernization theory in its conventional form, be it Parsonian or not. In this contribution – and in constant debate with modernization theory – I try to show the relevance of various theoretical perspectives in environmental sociology in the ...
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