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Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel.
- Format:
- Book
- 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
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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