The Politics of Environmental Discourse (Hardcover)

Lecturer in Sociology and Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Maarten A Hajer; John S Dryzek
Oxford University Press (UK)
 9780198279693
0-19-827969-8

This path-breaking study looks at the nature of contemporary environmental politics, analyzing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptions of environmental problems. The book argues that a new perspective-- "ecological modernization", which stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating technological innovation--has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s.