Ecological modernization theory

Mol, A.P.J.; Spaargaren, Gert; Sonnenfeld, David A.

doi:10.4324/9780203814550.ch2

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“…Regardless of motives (e.g., whether this is a blatant, shortterm public relations move or a long-term, pragmatic move for competitive advantage in a post-fossil fuels market), much of the business community no longer sees challenging the reality of global warming to be a productive strategy. Indeed, this shift is consistent with the behavior of multinational corporations expected by ecological modernization theory (e.g., Mol and Spaargaren 2000). That is, multinational corporations are expected to adopt pro-environmental stances, practices, and products in order to maintain competitiveness and secure increased pro ts in important markets (e.g., Europe) where consumers demand such changes (Newell 2000).…”

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confidence: 58%

Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy

McCright¹,

Dunlap²

2003

Social Problems

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Section: Codasupporting

confidence: 58%

Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy

McCright¹,

Dunlap²

2003

Social Problems

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“…Reflexive modernization scholars (Beck 1997;Mol 2000) acknowledge that forces of anti-reflexivity mobilize to defend the legitimacy of the industrial capitalist order against attacks from those pointing to problems caused by this system (see also Gleeson 2000). More recently, argue that the American conservative movement has mobilized to oppose reflexive modernizationand reassert the dominance of industrial capitalism of the earlier modern era-by directly challenging impact science and the environmental movement.…”

Section: Dealing With Climate Change Provokes Anti-reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Two general forces of reflexivity are relevant here: social movements and the scientific community (Beck 1992;Mol 2000). Most prominent are the environmental movement and those fields within the scientific community examining the ecological and human health impacts of technologies and economic activities, what Schnaiberg (1980) termed "impact science."…”

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“…Most prominent are the environmental movement and those fields within the scientific community examining the ecological and human health impacts of technologies and economic activities, what Schnaiberg (1980) termed "impact science." These sectors of society, the environmental movement and impact science, direct attention to technological and ecological crises and force us to deal such problems-whether they are acute catastrophes such as massive oil spills along our Gulf Coast or crescive problems such as climate change (Beck 1992;Mol and Spaargaren 2000).…”

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Political orientation moderates Americans’ beliefs and concern about climate change

McCright¹

2010

Climatic Change

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I offer some theoretical insights to help us better understand the moderator effect of political orientation that Larry Hamilton and others have found in recent years. Reflexive modernization theory highlights an emerging tension between those who direct attention to the negative consequences of industrial capitalism such as climate change (e.g., the scientific community and environmental organizations) and those who defend the economic system against such critiques (e.g., the conservative movement). Political divisions in the American public increasingly map onto these societal divisions between critics and defenders of the industrial capitalist orderespecially for the issue of climate change. This alignment is facilitated by increased polarization among political elites and balkanization of the news media. Strong evidence of the moderator effect is consistent with the expectations of information processing theory and elite cues hypothesis from political science. Recent empirical findings in political psychology and neuroscience also seem pertinent for explaining this moderator effect. I end by outlining a few implications for climate change research and communication.

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“…Whereas, the essential social restructuring includes extra policy and awareness measures towards the creation of more efficient, innovative and self sustained green society. For detailed exploratory research on UET (see Crenshaw and Jenkins, 1996;McGrnahan et al, 1996;Gouldson and Murphy, 1997;Marcotullio and McGranahan, 2012) and for EMT (see Spaargaren and Mol, 1992;Mol and Spaargaren, 2000;Mol et al, 2013 ).…”

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The sheer scale of China’s urban renewal and CO2 emissions: multiple structural breaks, long-run relationship, and short-run dynamics

Ahmed

2016

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In the light of urban environmental transition (UET) theory, this study explores the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, economic growth, urbanization and trade openness using updated Chinese data over the extended period . After confirming that all the underlying series are stationary and adjusted with single structural break point, the results of auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach to cointegration confirms the cointegration between the variables. The long-and short-run dynamics reveal that urbanization reduces the CO 2 emissions both in short-and long-run, but statistically insignificant. These findings contrast with previous literature and sounds the validation of urban environmental transition theory (UET). However, economic growth and trade openness contribute environmental degradation both in long-and short-run paths. The causality analysis reports bidirectional causal link between trade openness and urbanization in the short-run. However, in the long-run, economic growth ranger cause carbon dioxide emissions, urbanization and trade openness. Similarly, trade openness Granger cause carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth and urbanization in the long-run. The overall results imply that rural to urban immigration is still mostly driven by exports related manufacturing sectors. In addition, the higher GDP also contributes to urbanization as a feedback effect. In the end, stability of the model is also checked, model found stable and findings are suitable for environmental policy control use.2

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Ecological modernization theory

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Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy

Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy

Political orientation moderates Americans’ beliefs and concern about climate change

The sheer scale of China’s urban renewal and CO2 emissions: multiple structural breaks, long-run relationship, and short-run dynamics

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