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Environment and Global Modernity
Author(s): Gert Spaargaren (Editor), Arthur P. J. Mol (Editor), Frederick H. Buttel (Editor), A. P. J. Mol (Editor)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 2 Jun. 2000
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761967664
- ISBN-13: 9780761967668
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Gert Spaargaren and Arthur P.J. Mol teach in the Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University; Frederick Buttel is in the Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
CONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:
Ingolfur Bluhdorn University of Bath
Ernest Garcia University of Valencia
Pieter Leroy Nijmegen University
Michael Redclift University of London
Leonardas Rinkevicius Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Jan van Tatenhove Nijmegen University
