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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.
Globalization and Environment: Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization
Globalization and Environment: Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization
Introduction
The notion of globalization has become quite popular in a short time, both in the daily vocabulary of newspapers, business representatives, state officials and nongovernmental organizations, and in the social sciences. Before the early 1980s the concept of globalization could hardly be found, neither in academic studies nor in popular newspapers and magazines. Within one decade (cf. Robertson, 1992), however, this notion has reached a firm position in the social sciences and is at the moment one of the leading concepts to analyze and indicate the changing character of the modern world. The popularity of the notion of globalization should, however, not be interpreted as only the latest fashion. ...
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