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Sociology, environment, and modernity: Ecological modernization as a theory of social change
Gert Spaargaren,Arthur P.J. Mol +1 more
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In this paper, the authors discuss the need for institutional reform within modern society to minimize or at least substantially reduce damage to the natural resource sustenance base, and they discuss these matters in the context of the theory of "ecological modernization".Abstract:
To minimize or at least substantially reduce damage to the natural resource sustenance‐base we urgently need institutional reform within modern society. Environmental sociologists have different views as to which institutional traits can be held primarily responsible for the environmental crisis. Examples include its capitalistic or industrial character as well as the complex, highly administrated technological system of modern society. We discuss these matters in the context of the theory of “ecological modernization”; as developed by the German sociologist Joseph Huber, among others. To analyze the institutional reforms required for bringing human interaction with the sustenance‐base under rational ecological control, however, the theory needs to be substantially modified and complemented in several respects. However, restructuring the processes of production and consumption is only half the story. The change to ecologically sound patterns of production and consumption is limited by the dimensi...read more
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