Title | Ecological modernization as social theory |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2000 |
Authors | Buttel, Frederick |
Journal | Geoforum |
Volume | 31 |
Pagination | 57-65 |
Abstract | In this paper I examine some of the reasons for and implications of the ascendance of ecological modernization thought. I stress that its rapid rise to prominence is not because it is a well-developed and highly-codified social theory, but rather because it accords particularly well with a number of intellectual and broader political–economic factors, many of which lie outside the realms of sociology and environmental sociology. I suggest that while ecological modernization is indistinct as a social theory its basic logic suggests two points. First, the most sophisticated versions of ecological modernization revolve around the notion that political |