Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel.

Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.

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Other Authors: Spaargaren, Gert, Mol, A. P. J., Buttel, Frederick H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Governing environmental flows in global modernity / Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Hans Bruyninckx
  • Toward a sociology of environmental flows : a new agenda for twenty-first-century environmental sociology / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren
  • The environmental state and environmental flows : the need to reinvent the nation-state / Martin Jänicke
  • Looking through the state at environmental flows and governance / Dimitris Stevis and Hans Bruyninckx
  • Detached flows or grounded place-making projects? / Zsuzsa Gille
  • Globalization, environmental reform, and U.S. hegemony / Frederick H. Buttel
  • Governing nature? On the global complexity of biodiversity conservation / C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen
  • Governing climate risk : a study of international rivers / Itay Fischhendler
  • Environmental governance of global food flows : the case of labeling strategies / Peter Oosterveer
  • Greening transnational buildings : between global flows and local places / Luciana M.S. Presas and Arthur P.J. Mol
  • Environment, mobility, and the accleration of time : a sociological analysis of transport flows in modern life / Mette Jensen
  • Epilogue : Environmental flows and twenty-first-century environmental social sciences / Frederick H. Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, and Arthur P.J. Mol.