2002
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00238
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Social Movements and Ecological Modernization: The Transformation of Pulp and Paper Manufacturing

Abstract: Ecological modernization theory posits that social movements play a central role in the environmental transformation of contemporary society. How they do so has received limited scholarly attention. This article seeks to reduce this thesis to a number of propositions which are then examined in light of the experience of the pulp and paper industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on field research and interviews in Southeast Asia, Australia and the United States, as well as available data, the study finds that … Show more

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“…al., 1999 Jobbágy e Jackson, 2003e 2004. (Fig, 2007;Hilgemberg e Bacha, 2003;Sonnenfeld, 2002 (Boyle, 1999;Turnbull, 1999 (Kiehl, 1979).…”
Section: Na Indústria Papeleira a Polpação Da Madeira E A Produção Dmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…al., 1999 Jobbágy e Jackson, 2003e 2004. (Fig, 2007;Hilgemberg e Bacha, 2003;Sonnenfeld, 2002 (Boyle, 1999;Turnbull, 1999 (Kiehl, 1979).…”
Section: Na Indústria Papeleira a Polpação Da Madeira E A Produção Dmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These include dirty industries such as petro-chemicals, and paper and pulp processing (Bond 2002). The history of urban and industrial development, in which non-white communities were often forcibly relocated to locations in close proximity to heavily polluting industries (Scott 2003), means that the burden of environmental risks from continued industrial development in this dependent ecological modernization paradigm (Sonnenfeld 2002) fall disproportionately on historically disadvantaged black communities.…”
Section: ) Decoupling Rights and Obligationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sonnenfeld 2002;Gritten 2009), for example, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in Indonesia (accusations of illegal logging) and Metsä Botnia in Uruguay (fears regarding pollution caused by its pulp mill). The scrutiny is reflected in campaigns by environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs), such as Greenpeace and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), who are campaigning to get the industry to operate in a more sustainable manner (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The scrutiny is reflected in campaigns by environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs), such as Greenpeace and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), who are campaigning to get the industry to operate in a more sustainable manner (e.g. Sonnenfeld 2002;Gritten and Kant 2007). The ENGOs' campaigns can have a significant impact on the operations of corporations, as well as governments (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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