Greening the globe : world society and environmental change /
"Recent decades have seen a rapid expansion of environmental activity in the world, including the signing of a growing number of environmental treaties and the formation of international organizations like the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Greening the Globe employs world society...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 World Society and Social Change; World Society and Social Change: The Strength of Weak Mechanisms; Explaining Global Environmentalism; Modernization Theory; Capitalist Interests and Social Movement Responses; World Society Theory; Theoretical Issues in the World Society Perspective; Institutional Origins and Change; Structures and Workspaces; Actors and Agency; Interests; Conflict; When Efforts at Social Change Fail
- Environmental AgentsINGOs as Agents; Institutional Activity; Interpretation; Diffusion and Translation; Innovation; The Problem of Hazardous Waste; Actors Mobilize against Hazardous Waste; Agents and the Expansion of Waste Management Infrastructure; Conclusion; 5 Cultural Meaning; Sociological Perspectives on Culture; The Institutional Reconstruction of Interests; The Conventional View of Interests; Institutions and the Reconfiguration of Interests; World Society and Cultural Meaning; Cultural Meaning in Institutions; Change in Cultural Meanings
- Meanings in World Society: Beyond the Cultural JuggernautCultural Meanings and Social Change; Conflict and the Emergence of New Meanings; Diffusion and Adoption of New Meanings; Resistance, Anachronism, and Social Change; The Case of Climate Change; Conflict Results from the Expanding Environmental Agenda; The Re-formation of Corporate Interests; Resistance to New Cultural Meanings; Conclusion; 6 The Limits of International Institutions; Value-Based Motivations for Social Change; The Converse of Institutional Change; Revolutionary versus Incremental Change; Optimism and Pessimism
- Modernization TheorySocial Movement Arguments; World Society Theory; The Apparent Ineffectiveness of Environmental Regulatory Structures; Political Will and Policy Effectiveness; Resources and Policy Effectiveness; Institutional Structure and the Creation of Workspaces; Agenda Setting; The Creation of Workspaces; Persistence of Institutional Structures; Institutional Structures, Workspaces, and the Global Ozone Regime; Setting the Agenda; Creating Workspace; Institutional Persistence; Conclusion; 4 Agents; Theorizing Actors and Agents; The Creation of Institutional Agents
- Reflections and Research Implications2 The Origins of the Global Environmental Regime; The Modern Conception of the Environment; Traditional Perspectives on Institutional Formation; Modernization Theory; Social Movement Accounts; World Society Process of Institutional Formation; Preexisting International Environmental Institutions; The Economic Development Regime; The Workspace of the UN Stockholm Conference; The United Nations System; Workspace of the Special Conference; The Global Environmental Institution; 3 Institutional Structure; The Proliferation of Institutional Structures