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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"ecological modernization"”.
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Sub-federal ecological modernization: a case study of Colorado's new energy economy
… and innovation to policies of stronger ecological modernization, which seek to align industrial interests with environmental protection. In recent years these policies have been mobilized to address the threat of climate change and promote environmental innovation. While some US …
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Three essays on our planetary future
… explores to what extent more radical forms of ecological modernization can offer a basis for political compromise and open new paths to global long-term sustainability. Based on three published articles, the thesis engages with existing literature on (a) intergenerational justice, (b) …
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Municipal water supply governance in Ontario: neoliberalization, utility restructuring, and infrastructure management
… outcomes for environmental policy. The other (ecological modernization) asserts that neoliberal restructuring leads to environmental improvements. This thesis tests and complicates both sets of claims. Specifically, neoliberalization does not necessarily induce improved programming for …
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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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Historical regimes of socio-natures in farmlands: practices of conventional farming in Fukuoka, Japan
… of pesticides), fertilizer use, infrastructure modernization in rice paddies, a reduced pesticide rice farming movement, the 2005-2007 “Agriculture’s Blessings” government program (which subsidized farmers for investigating rice paddy bugs and other creatures and reducing pesticide use), and the …
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Resistance and waste work: Women’s environmentalism in Southern Italy
… and development literatures, such as ecological modernization theory and the women-development nexus. By highlighting the role of disenfranchised migrant women in waste regimes, this research provides a new perspective on the global care chain and on the outsourcing of social …