Governing Environmental Flows : Global Challenges to Social Theory.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Governing Environmental Flows in Global Modernity -- I Theoretical Perspectives and Debates -- 2 Toward a Sociology of Environmental Flows: A New Agenda for Twenty-First-Century Environmental Sociology -- 3 The Environmental State and Environmental Flows: The Need to Reinvent the Nation-State -- 4 Looking through the State at Environmental Flows and Governance -- 5 Detached Flows or Grounded Place-Making Projects? -- 6 Globalization, Environmental Reform, and U.S. Hegemony -- II Empirical Perspectives -- 7 Governing Nature? On the Global Complexity of Biodiversity Conservation -- 8 Governing Climate Risk: A Study of International Rivers -- 9 Environmental Governance of Global Food Flows: The Case of Labeling Strategies -- 10 Greening Transnational Buildings: Between Global Flows and Local Places -- 11 Environment, Mobility, and the Acceleration of Time: A Sociological Analysis of Transport Flows in Modern Life -- 12 Epilogue: Environmental Flows and Twenty-First-Century Environmental Social Sciences -- Index.

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