Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12754203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur P J Mol (0000-0002-4446-2595, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 92-115 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/15263800260047844 |
| OpenAlex | W2160934709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper explores what an ecological modernization perspective has to offer in an era marked by globalization. Globalization processes and dynamics are mostly seen as detrimental to the environment. The point that an ecological modernization perspective puts on the research agenda is that, although global capitalism has not been beaten and continues to show its devastating environmental effects in all corners of the world, we are moving beyond the era of a global treadmill of production that only further degrades the environment. More or less powerful, reflexive, countervailing powers are beginning to move towards environmental reform. And these powers are no longer limited to a small environmental movement that only reacts to the constant undermining of society's sustenance base. In analyzing these countervailing forces, the paper also explores the consequences of globalization processes for ecological modernization ideas and perspectives
Biology · Capitalism · Ecological modernization · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Market economy · Modernization theory · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Sustenance · Ecology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Political Economy and Marxism · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Compact city planning and development
Discourse analysis of environmental policy revisited
Uneven Decoupling
The Treadmill of Information
Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level
From image to impact
Conditions for environmental success
Grundverständnis nachhaltiger Entwicklung in Deutschland. Ökologische Modernisierung oder Postwachstum
Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets
Examining the antecedents and consequences of sustainable green supply chain management from the perspective of ecological modernization
Valuing sustainability in aquaculture
Modelling the dynamic linkages between eco-innovation, urbanization, economic growth and ecological footprints for G7 countries
Global Surpluses of Extraction and Slow Climate Violence
Organizing in the Anthropocene
Dialectical Materialism and Nature
Environmental Concern in a Capitalist Economy
Up in Smoke
The Environment Has No Standing in Environmental Governance
The Challenge of Climate Change and Energy Policies for Building a Sustainable Society in Japan
The Planetary Rift and the New Human Exemptionalism
From Additions and Withdrawals to Environmental Flows
Transitioning From Endgame to Sustainability
Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory
Degrowth or secular stagnation? The political economy of monopoly finance capital and the stagnation-accumulation treadmill
How Does Information Communication Technology Affect Energy Use
Time, Power and Environmental Impact
A critical analysis of CDM implementation in landfills in Rio de Janeiro after 2012
The Silver Bullet? Assessing the Role of Education for Sustainability
Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Country-Level Affluence and Environmental Concern
Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface
Comparative Politics of Sub-Federal Cap-and-Trade
The Sustainability Debate
Greening labour? The role of the SDGs in fostering sustainability integration within trade unions
Refining the Multiple Streams Framework’s Integration Concept
Re-thinking the Fiscal and Monetary Political Economy of the Green State
Green Technology and Ecologically Unequal Exchange
Geoeconomic Uses of Global Warming
Hollow Ecology
The Paradoxical Relationship between Renewable Energy and Economic Growth
Ecological neo-Narodnism and the peasant economy
Balancing or prioritising for sustainable development? Perceptions of sustainability integration among professionals
Empowering BRICS economies
Ecological modernization as a paradigm of corporate sustainability
Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy
China's ascent and Africa's environment
The Temporal (In)Stability of the Carbon Dioxide Emissions/Economic Development Relationship in Central and Eastern European Nations
Organic Agriculture as Environmental Reform
Crying Over Spilt Milk
Political Economy, Ecological Modernization, and Energy Use
The Transnational Tilt of the Treadmill and the Role of Trade Openness on Carbon Emissions
Ecological modernization and water resource management
Industrial ecosystems? The use of tropes in the literature of industrial ecology and eco-industrial parks
Temples, travesties, or something else? The developmental state, ecological modernization, and hydroelectric dam construction in India
In-and-Beyond State Power
Energy Policy and Environmental Possibilities
The Environmental Consequences of Rural and Urban Population Change
A Basic Accounting of Variation in Municipal Solid‐Waste Generation at the County Level in Texas, 2006
Future green economies and regional development
Will Democratization Save the Climate? An Entropy-Balanced, Random Slope Study
From sustainable development to carbon control
Financing the future
Agriculture, modèles productifs et options technologiques
Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world
In the Corporate Interest
Perspectives and impacts of modern technology on the environment and society
Smart Eco-City Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability
Capitalism and Sustainability
Climate governance in the post-industrial city
Is pro-environmentalism a privilege? Country development factors as moderators of socio-psychological drivers of pro-environmental behavior
The bottom line
Mapping the environmental field
Beyond Denialism
Climate change and transformations of justice—Views of just distribution in the Finnish policy debate
Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth
The Problem of Consumption
Up with ecology, down with economy? The consolidation of the idea of climate change mitigation in the global public sphere
Cross-National Variation in the Size of Passenger Car Fleets
Can command-and-control regulation reduce carbon emissions? Evidence from China
Bigger Is Not Always Better
Ecological Unequal Exchange
The enduring coloniality of ecological modernization
Ecological modernisation, industry policy and the Australian automotive industry, 2007–13
Actors, Norms, and Impact
Divergent Pathways on the Road to Sustainability
The Unsustainable State
Does the Modernization of Environmental Enforcement Reduce Toxic Releases? An Examination of Self-policing, Criminal Prosecutions, and Toxic Releases in the United States, 1988-2014
Societies consuming nature
Divergent roads
Decoupling reconsidered
Modernization, Political Economy, and Limits to Blue Growth
The Green Economy in South Africa
Are the Economy and the Environment Decoupling? A Comparative International Study, 1960-2005
Peut-on jouer à concevoir des armes
Industrial Symbiosis and Eco-Industrial Development
Ecological modernisation theory
Green states in Africa
Beneath the insuperable barrier
Anti-incinerator campaigns and the evolution of protest politics in China
Environmentally harmful discourses of modernity
The Environmental State Under Pressure
The Politics of the Environment
Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics
The treadmill of production and the environmental state
Global transformations
Global Shift
Beyond sociology
Globalization and Culture
Environment and Global Modernity
The Roots of Modern Environmentalism
Cities in a World Economy
Environmental Policy
Ecological modernization as social theory
Ecological modernisation, environmental knowledge and national character
Developing countries
Greening Without Conflict? Environmentalism, NGOs and Civil Society in China
Advanced industrial countries
Ecological modernisation and institutional reflexivity
Developing countries
Environment, Modernity and the Risk-Society
| Unique citing works | 103 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,48 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 103 |