Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy

By Arthur P. J. Mol. Global Environmental Politics, 2002

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science

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Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory (2003, background): “On the other hand, Mol (2002) has also indicated that EMT is only about “relative improvements” in environmental conditions rather than “absolute sustainability” (p. 97).”
Ecological Unequal Exchange: Consumption, Equity, and Unsustainable Structural Relationships within the Global Economy (2007, background): “…modernization perspective, a theory increasingly prominent in environmental sociology, focuses upon the increasing embeddedness of ecological rationality in social practices and institutional developments, particularly within industrialized countries (Mol, 2002; Mol and Spaargaren, 2000).”
Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography: Linking Ecological Modernization and Regulationist Approaches (2006, background): “There are opportunities, then, to explore the different types of regional and national flavors of ecological modernization that are consequent upon globalization (Mol 2002).”
Are the Economy and the Environment Decoupling? A Comparative International Study, 1960–20051 (2012, background): “In the world economy, ecological modernization “has a universalizing effect on the way in which countries experience and design environmental reform” (Mol 2002, p. 112).”
HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics (2010, background): “Indeed, one complexity of ecological regulation is that much of it extends beyond the nation-state to supra-national organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and other entities that lie beyond the reach of representative democracy within individual nations [37].”
Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development: a critical view (2016, background): “Green economy is a popularized version ecological modernization, by which environmental externalities—the unintentional costs or benefits of economic activities— are brought into the accounting of individuals, enterprises and states (Mol 2002).”
Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world (2006, background): “We have also sidestepped important debates about ecological modernization (Hajer, 1995; Buttel, 2000; Mol, 2002) and the (closely related) rise of market-based environmental”
Future green economies and regional development: a research agenda (2017, unknown): “This perspective is essentially one of ecological modernization, at the heart of which is a belief in technology, innovation and progress to solve environmental problems (Mol, 2002; Roberts & Colwell, 2001).”