Course Outline -- Week 14
Wk 14 – Ecological Modernization
Required
Simonis, Udo E. 1989. "Ecological Modernization of Industrial Society," International Social Science Journal 121:347-361 (R)
Mol, Refining Production, preface, pp. xv-xvii; ch’s 1-4, pp. 1-92; ch’s 9-10, pp. 355-402
Mol, Arthur P.J. 1996. "Ecological Modernisation and Institutional Reflexivity: Environmental Reform in the Late Modern Age," Environmental Politics 5(2):302-323 (R)
Recommended
Cohen, Maurie. 1997. "Risk Society and Ecological Modernisation: Alternative Visions for Post-Industrial Nations," Futures 29(2):105-119 (R)
Blowers, Andrew. 1997. "Environmental Policy: Ecological Modernisation or the Risk Society?" Urban Studies 34(5-6):845-871 (R)
Weale, Albert, "The Politics of Ecological Modernization," ch. 21 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth
Bunker, Stephen G. 1996. "Raw Materials and the Global Economy: Oversights and Distortions in Industrial Ecology," Society and Natural Resources 9:419-429 (R)
Hannigan, ch. 10, "Environmental Constructionism and the Postmodern Condition," pp. 178-86 in Environmental Sociology
Harvey, Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Differences, pp. TBD
Other
Andersen, Governance by Green Taxes
Dryzek, "Industrial Society and Beyond: Ecological Modernization," ch. 8 in Politics of the Earth (V)
Hajer, Politics of Environmental Discourse (V)
Hajer, "Ecological Modernization as Cultural Politics," pp. 246-268 in Lash, et al., eds., Risk, Environment and Modernity (V)
Huber, Joseph and David Angel. 1996. "Building Sustainable Industries for Sustainable Societies," Business Strategy and the Environment 5(3):127-136, September
Huber, Joseph. 1997. "Strategies of Sustainable Development in Europe: Towards Industrial Ecology," Social Sciences Review, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 32(4):65-86. Available: <http://soziologie.uni-halle.de/publikationen/pdf/kyoto.pdf>
Spaargaren, Gert and Arthur P.J. Mol. 199x. "Sociology, Environment, and Modernity," Society and Natural Resources 5:323-444.
Weale, New Politics of Production (V)
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