The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process

by Maarten A. Hajer

Book Overview

This path-breaking study looks at the nature of contemporary environmental politics, analyzing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptions of environmental problems. The book argues that a new perspective-- "ecological modernization", which stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating technological innovation--has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198279698
• ISBN13: 9780198279693
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"