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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ecological modernisation"”.
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Analysing sustainability of solid waste management in Malaysia using ecological modernisation perspective
… system. It does this by adopting the concept of ecological modernisation as a reference for analysing the policy and institutional structures that control waste management and sustainability policy. It examines the relevance the institutional dimension of the ecological modernisation theory to …
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Ecological modernisation and organic farming: a comparative assessment between UK and the state of Karnataka (India)
… products has made them distinct in an era of Ecological Modernisation. Ecological Modernisation is an approach that believes in combining environment friendly technology and bureaucracy in terms of stringent environmental standards to meet the requirements of the affluent public. In India and …
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Ecological modernisation and the development of the UK's green industrial strategy: the case of the UK National Industrial Symbiosis Programme.
… that the UK government is focused on embedding ecological modernisation components in the policy process, there is also a need for extended and consistent decentralisation across the UK and a structural framework that enables non-state stakeholders to effectively influence the policy process. …
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The politics of sustainability in New Zealand: A critical evaluation of environmental policy, practice and prospects through a case study of the dairy industry
… analytic framework to identify technological, ecological modernisation and sustainable development discourses within environmental policies and processes and dairy industry practice and explore the implications of these discourses. The framework is also applied to the analysis of stakeholder …
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Nuclear Energy and the Low Carbon Transition
… Theories of sustainable development, including ecological modernisation, are used to frame its findings and emerging geographies of nuclear new build are explored. Analysis of policy shows that recent narrative from government has been inconsistent on the quantification of the carbon footprint …
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The state and environmental political thought
… certain concepts and theories - in particular ecological modernisation and deliberative democratisation - have come to the fore as focal points, or sites of contestation, in discussions over this question. This thesis, however, takes a step back from the current trend of green thinking towards …
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Climate change, trade unions and the promise of climate solidarity in the UK, 1997-2010
… change politics, dominated by neoliberal and ecological modernisation framings, has reached an impasse. This thesis investigates whether a Marxist critique focused on trade unions might offer an alternative approach. It critically analyses the social science literature on climate change and …
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The Interscetions between economy, environment and loacality: the London 2012 Olympic and paralympic games
… of „shallow‟ and „deep‟ ecology, and Ecological Modernisation Theory (EMT) in order to better understand the relationship between the environment, sustainability and the Olympic Games. Adopting a three-phase qualitative approach which utilises interviews, focus groups and an analysis …
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Valuing the global environment : publics, politics and participation.
… issue represent the institutionalisation of ecological modernisation, and considers whether this accords with the types of reflection on the reflexivity of modernity that Beck (1992) suggests is necessary for environmental solutions. While progressive concepts of knowledge, values and …