Environment and global modernity /

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Imprint:	London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2000.
Description:	xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Sage studies in international sociology. 50
Subject:	Global environmental change -- Congresses. Social change -- Congresses. Globalization -- Congresses. Global environmental change. Globalization. Social change. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4380586

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Other authors / contributors:	Spaargaren, Gert. Mol, A. P. J. Buttel, Frederick H.
ISBN:	0761967664 0761967672 (pbk.)
Notes:	"This volume originated out of a conference on 'Social Theory and the Environment' organized under the auspices of the International Sociological Association (ISA) by the Research Group on 'Environment and Society'"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Globalization, Modernity and the Environment
Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology
Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society
Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity
Modern Theories of Society and the Environment
The Risk Society
Social Constructions and Social Constrictions
Toward Analyzing the Social Construction of 'the Naturalized' as Well as 'the Natural'
Globalization and Environment
Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization
Environmental Social Theory for a Globalizing World Economy
The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in 'Double-Risk' Societies
A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy
Political Modernization Theory and Environmental Politics
Ecological Modernization and Post-Ecologist Politics
Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and 'Sustainable Development'

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