The Politics of Environmental Discourse - POD TITLE

Zusatztext This superb book is one of the few successful attempts to apply contemporary sociological thinking to a detailed empirical case-study in the environmental sphere in a way which is genuinely enlightening for policy makers as well as for academic scoial science disciplines ... an excellent book Klappentext This path-breaking study looks at the nature of contemporary environmental politics! analyzing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptions of environmental problems. The book argues that a new perspective-- "ecological modernization!" which stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating technological innovation--has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s. Zusammenfassung Martin A. Hajer's original study examines the nature of contemporary environmental politics, analysing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptions of environmental problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The New Environmental Conflict 2: Discourse Analysis 3: The Historical Roots of Ecological Modernization 4: Accumulating Knowledge, Accumulating Pollution? Ecological Modernization in the United Kingdom 5: The Micro-Powers of Apocalypse: Ecological Modernization in the Netherlands 6: Ecological Modernization: Discourse and Institutional Change

Product details

• Authors: Maarten A. Hajer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 0 to 4
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.1997
• EAN: 9780198293330
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829333-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Biodiversity, Biodiversity / Ecosystems