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In Uganda, environmental and natural resource management is decentralized and has been the responsibility of local districts since 1996. This environmental management arrangement was part of a broader decentralization process and was intended to increase local ownership and improve environmental policy; however, its implementation has encountered several major challenges over the last decade. This article reviews some of the key structural problems facing decentralized environmental policy in this central African country and examines these issues within the wider framework of political decentralization. Tensions have arisen between technical staff and politicians, between various levels of governance, and between environmental and other policy domains. This review offers a critical reflection on the perspectives and limitations of decentralized environmental governance in Uganda. Our conclusions focus on the need to balance administrative staff and local politicians, the mainstreaming of local environmental policy, and the role of international donors.

Ecological modernization theory has been developed mainly with respect to the production sphere. To apply the theory to the domain of consumption, it is argued here that central concepts from the sociology of consumption are required. What results is a contextual model of (domestic) consumption that combines an actor-oriented approach with a system-of-provision perspective of consumer behavior. The relevance of the proposed model for research on the ecological modernization of domestic consumption is discussed. 3 Figures, 32 References. Adapted from the source document.