TY - BOOK AU - Spaargaren,Gert AU - Mol,Arthur P.J. AU - Buttel,Frederick H. TI - Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory T2 - The MIT Press Series SN - 9780262284103 AV - GE170.G684 2006 U1 - 333.7 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmental policy -- Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3338651 ER -