The Ecological Modernisation Reader: 
Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

Arthur P. J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Gert Spaargaren, eds.

London and New York: Routledge

Hardback: ISBN 978-0-415-45370-7 (July 2009)
Paperback: ISBN 978-0-415-45371-4 (Oct. 2009)

This collection presents in one, easily-accessible volume, a series of thoughtful, up-to-date review essays by leading scholars from around the world on the dynamics and politics of institutional environmental reform, and a selection of the best published works and debates from a quarter-century of scholarship on what has come to be known as Ecological Modernisation Theory. Included are key foundational works never before published in English, translated especially for this volume, and an agenda for continued scholarship in this important area.

Keywords: ecological modernization theory, environmental policy, social theory of the environment

Subject areas: Sociology, Human Geography/ Environmental Studies, Political Science/ Policy Studies, Business/ Economics, Environmental Planning/ Design, Asian Studies