Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory / / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy; Environmental policy - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory; ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
• Altri autori: SpaargarenGert MolA. P. J ButtelFrederick H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.
• Titolo autorizzato: Governing environmental flows
• ISBN: 1-282-09835-7; 9786612098352; 0-262-28410-3; 1-4237-8721-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777514303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II