Global modernization report : discoveries and theories revisited /

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Imprint:Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2015]
Description:xiv, 371 pages ; 27 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10241598
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Other authors / contributors:Martinelli, Alberto, editor.
He, Chuanqi, 1962- editor.
ISBN:9789814616065
9814616060
9789814651233
9814651230
Table of Contents:
  • The Scientific Advisory and Editorial Committee of the First International Modernization Forum
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Modernization Announcement: The Concluding Announcement of the First IMF
  • Part I. Modernization Theory Reconsidered
  • Global Modernization and Multiple Modernities
  • Modernization as Social Becoming: 10 Theses on Modernization
  • The Decline and Fall of Consumer Society? Implications for Theories of Modernization
  • Modernization Science and Modernization Policy
  • Modernization Theories with Global Vision in the Contemporary China
  • An Interpretation of Modernization Science
  • Part II. Modernization and World Economy
  • The Indicator System and its Measurement on Assessment of the Progress of Chinese Great Rejuvenation
  • Russia's New Horizons
  • From Urbanization to Urban Decay: The Problems of Modernization, Urbanization and Industrialization - The Case of Detroit
  • Modernization and Regional Development in the 20th Century: The Case of Romania
  • Changes to the Global Economic Pattern and Modernization Prospects of Development Countries
  • Modernization and Rejuvenation of Civilizations
  • War and Modernization
  • Part III. Modernization and Social Change
  • World Modernization Indexes 1950 to 2010
  • Homelessness and Urban Sprawl of Large Cities of the US
  • Public Services Provision in European Countries: From Public/Municipal to Private Sector - and Back to Municipal?
  • Social Capital and Modernization of Russia
  • The Key Approach for Sustainable Modernization Improving Skill of Labor Force Continually
  • Scientific Population Policy and Equilibrium Population are the Important Factors of Modernization
  • Traffic Congestion Solutions in Hangzhou During Modernization and Urbanization
  • Rethinking about Modernization of Science and Technology
  • Evolution and Direction of Global Society
  • Part IV. Modernization and Environment Change
  • Understanding Resilience of Natural Resource Regimes: Adaptations and Transitions of the Forestry System in Finland
  • Modernization and Environmental Problems: How to Avoid the Pitfalls
  • Environmental Protection, Eco-Civilization Construction and Economic Development in Hainan
  • Post-Sunan Model in Terms of Ecological Civilization - A Case Study of Jiangy in City, Jiangsu
  • Ecological Modernization and China's Choice
  • Part V. Modernization and Regional Development
  • Socio-Cultural Modernization of Vologda Region (1)
  • Socio-Cultural Modernization of Vologda Region (2)
  • Can the Path Dependence be Changed? - On the Experience of China's System Innovation
  • State and Modernization in Central-Eastern Europe in the "Long 19th" Century 1800-1914: Some Considerations
  • Evaluation of China's Regional Modernization 1970 to 2010
  • Regional Development Under the Background of Modernization: Based on the Construction of the Central Plain Economic Region as a Case
  • Part VI. Modernization and Urbanization
  • Future Urbanization in China
  • Key Points and Features of the New-Type Urbanization
  • New-Type Household Manufacturing - The Strategic Industry to Support New-Type Urbanization
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. Opening Speech on the 1st IMF
  • Appendix 2. Welcoming Speech on the 1st IMF
  • Appendix 3. Message to the Participants
  • Appendix 4. Closing Speech on the First IMF
  • Appendix 5. World Modernization Indexes