The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process
Maarten A. Hajer
Abstract
The book identifies the emergence and increasing political importance of ‘ecological modernization’ as a new language in environmental politics. In this conceptual language, environmental management appears as a ‘positive sum game’. Combining social theory with detailed empirical analysis, the book illustrates the social and political dynamics of ecological modernization through a study of the acid rain controversies in Great Britain and the Netherlands. The book concludes with a reflection on the institutional challenge of environmental politics in the years to come. The book is not only seen ... More
Keywords: acid rain, discourse analysis, ecological modernization, environmental management, environmental policy, environmental politics, Great Britain, institutional change, Netherlands, risk society
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198293330 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/019829333X.001.0001 |
