With the rebirth of environmental concern among social scientists in the 1960s and 1970s,
scholars initially were preoccupied with explaining environmental devastation. Their central …

During the late 1960s and especially the 1970s several social sciences witnessed the
emergence of relatively small environmental subdisciplines: within sociology, political …

The concept of ecological modernisation is increasingly being used in policy analysis to
indicate deeply embedded and ecologically self‐conscious forms of cultural transformation …

There is little doubt that, over the past two centuries,'modernization'–generally taken to mean
the combined effects of industrialization (and more recently 'postindustrialization'), economic …

Many contemporary environmental social scientists and commentators suggest that a major
turn occurred in the 1980s with regard to the continuing undermining of sustenance bases of …

During the 1980s and early 1990s ecological modernisation was discussed and developed
by a relatively small group of environmental social scientists, particularly within politics and …

When the social sciences in the 1960s and 1970s turned their attention to the environment,
scholars initially were preoccupied with explaining environmental devastation. Their central …

The idea of ecological modernisation originated in Western Europe in the 1980s, gaining
attention around the world by the late 1990s. At the core of this social scientific and policy …

Ecological modernization has become a central concept in environmental social science.
The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at this concept as a theoretical device. Two …

This chapter investigates some similar dynamics in contemporary environmental politics. It
argues that environmental politics is now dominated by a discourse that might be labelled …