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Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006. - 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations, map

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Governing environmental flows in global modernity / Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Hans Bruyninckx -- Toward a sociology of environmental flows : a new agenda for twenty-first-century environmental sociology / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren -- The environmental state and environmental flows : the need to reinvent the nation-state / Martin Jänicke -- Looking through the state at environmental flows and governance / Dimitris Stevis and Hans Bruyninckx -- Detached flows or grounded place-making projects? / Zsuzsa Gille -- Globalization, environmental reform, and U.S. hegemony / Frederick H. Buttel -- Governing nature? On the global complexity of biodiversity conservation / C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen -- Governing climate risk : a study of international rivers / Itay Fischhendler -- Environmental governance of global food flows : the case of labeling strategies / Peter Oosterveer -- Greening transnational buildings : between global flows and local places / Luciana M.S. Presas and Arthur P.J. Mol -- Environment, mobility, and the accleration of time : a sociological analysis of transport flows in modern life / Mette Jensen -- Epilogue : Environmental flows and twenty-first-century environmental social sciences / Frederick H. Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, and Arthur P.J. Mol.

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Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.


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ISBN: 9780262284103 (electronic bk.) 0262284103 (electronic bk.) 1282098357 9781282098350 1423787218 9781423787211 0262195453 9780262195454 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmental policy.
Environmental policy--Social aspects.
Environnement--Politique gouvernementale.
Environnement--Politique gouvernementale--Aspect social.
environmental policy.
NATURE--Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Green Business.
Environmental policy.
Environmental policy--Social aspects.
Umweltpolitik
Globalisierung
Theoriebildung
Sozialwissenschaften
Governance
Internationalisatie.
Milieubeleid.
Staat (politicologie)

Subjects--Index Terms: SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GE170 / .G684 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7

National Agricultural Library Call No.: GE170 / .G684 2006