Basic oppositions between economic growth and environmental protection are well
understood by sociologists, but the state's role in environmental protection and regulation is …

Many environmental sociologists think of their scholarly speciality as being the study of
social institutions and environmental change. But while the analysis of social institutions and …

The vast majority of approaches in environmental economics attribute the current ecological
crisis to the fact that, from its inception, the industrial economic system was founded on …

The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the
reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the …

The concept of externalities represents the core of environmental economics but appears
much less in sociology and other social sciences. This article presents the concept of …

'Bringing the state back in'to research on comparative, inter-, and trans-national
environmental politics and policy will contribute to better understanding of the limits and …

Environmental governance is an increasingly central and urgent challenge for states at the
beginning of the twenty-first century. It is a challenge that international political economy has …

For decades, sociology of development scholars have considered the implications of
economic development for environmental conditions as well as how natural resource …

A focus on 'modern'industrialized societies obscures both the great antiquity of the state and
the powerful selective pressures that have led to the dominance of interstate competition …

The question of how to adapt the state into a more reliable, effective agent of environmental
governance applies at a global scale no less than within the domain of individual states …