Environment and Global Modernity

Introduction/Globalization Modernity and the Environment/Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology/Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society/Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity/Modern Theories of Society and the Environment/The Risk Society/Social Constructions and Social Constrictions/Toward Analyzing the Social Construction of 'the Naturalized' as Well as 'the Natural'/Globalization and Environment/Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization/Environmental Social Theory for a Globalizing World Economy/The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in 'Double-Risk' Societies/A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy/Political Modernization Theory and Environmental Politics/Ecological Modernization and Post-Ecologist Politics/Self-Organizing Complexity Conscious Purpose and 'Sustainable Development'