Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spaargaren, Gert.

Mol, A. P. J.

Buttel, Frederick H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental policy--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Governing Environmental Flows in Global Modernity / Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol, Hans Bruyninckx 1

I Theoretical Perspectives and Debates

2 Toward a Sociology of Environmental Flows: A New Agenda for Twenty-First-Century Environmental Sociology / Arthur P. J. Mol, Gert Spaargaren 39

3 The Environmental State and Environmental Flows: The Need to Reinvent the Nation-State / Martin Janicke 83

4 Looking through the State at Environmental Flows and Governance / Dimitris Stevis, Hans Bruyninckx 107

5 Detached Flows or Grounded Place-Making Projects? / Zsuzsa Gille 137

6 Globalization, Environmental Reform, and U.S. Hegemony / Frederick H. Buttel 157

II Empirical Perspectives

7 Governing Nature? On the Global Complexity of Biodiversity Conservation / C. S. A. (Kris) van Koppen 187

8 Governing Climate Risk: A Study of International Rivers / Itay Fischhendler 221

9 Environmental Governance of Global Food Flows: The Case of Labeling Strategies / Peter Oosterveer 267

10 Greening Transnational Buildings: Between Global Flows and Local Places / Luciana M. S. Presas, Arthur P. J. Mol 303

11 Environment, Mobility, and the Acceleration of Time: A Sociological Analysis of Transport Flows in Modern Life / Mette Jensen 327

12 Epilogue: Environmental Flows and Twenty-First-Century Environmental Social Sciences / Frederick H. Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol 351.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262284103

0262284103

1282098357

9781282098350

1423787218

9781423787211

0262195453

9780262195454

OCLC:

70273077

Publisher Number:

9780262195454

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