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University of Amsterdam
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2018
DOI: 10.1111/RISA.12994
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-07-2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2017
Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-08-2020
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 03-2012
Abstract: In East Asia, climate change as a policy concern has been a late developer. The last decade, however, has seen the mainstreaming of environmental issues in core policy circles, but in the form of market-friendly, pro-industrial development framings. This paper problematizes such environmental framings by looking at the politics of state-led ecological modernization and the institutional reforms that have emerged out of it. It argues that State-led ecological modernization necessarily leads to environmental framings that are too narrowly defined by state and industrial interests - hence the focus on carbon emissions, energy security and the impact on Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The State-driven assumption that society can modernize itself out of its environmental crisis through greater advancements in technological development also ignores the fact that this process often leads to the creation of other environmental and social problems, which in turn undermines the fundamental goals of stability and sustainability. Civil society needs to be given greater space in the policy and framing processes in order to have a more balanced policy approach to environmental reform in a more equitable way.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-01-2021
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 2018
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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