Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Transformation

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 253-265

  Mol, Arthur P J ^a   Spaargaren, Gert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecological modernisation environmental reform; Ecological modernisation and critics; Ecological restructuring ecology inspired and environment induced processes of transformation; Fundamentals of ecological modernisation; Greens, platform of a debate realos and fundis; Historical development of ecological modernisation ideas; New horizons of ecological modernisation debates

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751615297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305722.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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