The New Environmental Conflict
Discusses the character of the modern environmental conflict. As the existence of environmental degradation is now commonly accepted, the conflict has become ‘discursive’: it is not about a predefined unequivocal problem with competing actors pro and con, but is rather a continuous struggle over the definition and meaning of the environmental problem itself.
Keywords: Mary Douglas, ecological modernization, environmental conflict, limits to growth, pollution, regulation, risk society, subpolitics
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