Reflections on the potentials of ecological modernization as a social theory

Natures Sciences Societes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-12

  Buttel, Frederick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological modernization; Environmental sociology; Industrial ecology; State; Sustainability; Theory

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SUSTAINABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0033995343     PISSN: 12401307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1240-1307(00)88787-7     Document Type: Article

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