tailieunhanh - ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE EXPLANATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM

Analysis of the distribution of subject matter and library holdings represented in the HathiTrust Digital Library and shared print repositories further confirmed that the digital corpus is largely representative of the collective academic library collection, suggesting a broad potential market for service. A further positive finding was that monographic titles in the humanities constitute the greatest part of the mass-digitized resource, which may indicate that some relatively under-resourced disciplines will begin to benefit from a digital transformation that has already powered enormous innovation in the sciences. As detailed below, we also found that substantial library space savings and cost avoidance. | Organization Environment http Environmental Sociology and the Explanation of Environmental Reform Frederick H. Buttel Organization Environment 2003 16 306 DOI 1086026603256279 The online version of this article can be found at http cgi content abstract 16 3 306 Published by SAGE http Additional services and information for Organization Environment can be found at Email Alerts http cgi alerts Subscriptions http subscriptions Reprints http Permissions http Citations http cgi content refs 16 3 306 Downloaded from http at . on April 15 2009 Critical Essay ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE EXPLANATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM FREDERICK H. BUTTEL University of Wisconsin Madison This article makes the case that environmental sociology is in the midst of a sigytificant shift of problematiss from hhe expCaaatian of ern ii-orimitrilal grgradotion to the expnanotioo of environmental reform. In this article the author suggests that there are four basic mechanisms of airtironmanCal refom or émprolmmant amrramhalPaC ahtivism moeemanSs ai i te environmental regulation ecological modernization and international environmental governance. He suggests further that although green consumerism is one of the most frequently discussed mechanisms of eiTvironmenCal improvement within eiTvironmenCal .toctol-ogy and in movement discourse green consumerist arguments generally tend to rest on one or more of the otherfour mcshantsms of anvirnomanCal erfoom. Ono ofIIio maip tksks nf i-ronmental sociology will be to assess which of these four mechanisms is the mostfundamental to environmental reform. The author concludes with the hypothesis that environmental movements and activism are ultimately the most fundamental pillars of environmental reform. Keywords environmental movements .