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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.
The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in ‘Double-Risk’ Societies: A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy
The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in ‘Double-Risk’ Societies: A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy
Introduction
A growing number of scholars in the field of environmental sociology and policy argue that since the mid-1980s there has occurred a shift from ‘revolutionary’ environmentalism towards reformist environmentally informed social and institutional change epitomized by the concept of ecological modernization (Weale, 1992; Hajer, 1995; Mol, 1995). This co-evolutionary change of modern institutions of economy, science and technology, and public administration is contrasted with the environmental counter-movement of the 1970s which is labeled so due to its ‘totalkritik’, its antagonist attitudes towards other actors, particularly industrialists and state authorities, and its promulgation of ‘alternative’ values and ...
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