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A review essay on books by (1) James G. Carrier (Ed), Confronting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2003); & (2) Timothy Doyle, Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds: A Global Perspective (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U Press, 2005). References.

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 social movements were instrumental in the environmental transformation of the pulp industry, with important differences between North and South. It concludes with a call for more nuanced studies of the influence of social movements on different sectors and countries, especially in newly industrializing countries where more tenuous and dependent forms of ecological modernization may be emerging.

Considers ecological modernization theory in the context of newly industrializing countries (NICs), drawing on 1992-1996 fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, & the US as well as secondary sources. Southeast Asian pulp & paper industries improved efficiencies, reduced waste, & progressed toward clean production. However, they failed to meet an important criterion of ecological modernization, the dematerialization of production. Rather, "supermaterialization" of pulp & paper production in Southeast Asia may be facilitating dematerialization in the North. Dynamics of ecological modernization may be present in large-scale, export-oriented modern sectors of NIC economies, while being more problematic in small- & medium-sized enterprises. Such dynamics present serious challenges for ecological modernization theory. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 27 References. Adapted from the source document.

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of international trade and global food governance. Distance in time and space between food producers and consumers is increasing and new concerns are arising. These include the environmental impact of food production and trade, animal welfare, the health and safety of food and the social and economic impact of

"Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organisation of food production and consumption globally, and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of international trade and global food governance. Distance in time and space between food producers and consumers is increasing and new concerns are arising. These include the environmental impact of food production and trade, animal welfare, the health and safety of food, and the social and economic impact of international food trade