Sociology

Ecological Modernization

Ecological Modernization

Environmental modernization emerged in the early 1980s within several grouped scholars at Free University plus the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin, one of them Joseph Huber, Martin Jänicke along with Udo E. Simonis. Ecological modernization is an optimistic approach in the cultural sciences that argues how the economy benefits via moves towards environmentalism. It has accumulated increasing attention between scholars and policymakers within the last few several decades globally.