Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: Globalization, Modernity and the Environment

Gert Spaargaren

Arthur P.J. Mol

Frederick H. Buttel

Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology: some reflections on the antecedents and prospects for reflexive modernization theories in the study of environment and society

Frederick H. Buttel

Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity

Gert Spaargaren

Modern Theories of Society and the Environment: the Risk Society

Eugene A. Rosa

Social Constructions and Social Constrictions: toward analyzing the social construction of `the naturalized' as well as `the natural'

William R. Freudenburg

Globalization and Environment: between apocalypse-blindness and ecological modernization

Arthur P.J. Mol

Environmental Social Theory for a Globalizing World Economy

Michael Redclift

The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in `Double-Risk' Societies: a case study of Lithuanian environmental policy

Leonardas Rinkevicius

Political Modernization Theory and Environmental Politics

Pieter Leroy

Jan van Tatenhove

Ecological Modernization and Post-Ecologist Politics

Ingolfur Bluhdorn

Self-organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and `Sustainable Development'

Ernest Garcia

Index