Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography: Linking Ecological Modernization and Regulationist Approaches

David Gibbs

Economic Geography, 2006, vol. 82, issue 2, 193-215

Abstract: Although the “new”economic geography has explored links between the subdiscipline’s traditional areas of study and cultural, institutional, and political realms, environmental issues remain comparatively underresearched within the subdiscipline. This article contends not only that the environment is of key importance to economic geography, but also that economic geographers can make an important contribution to environmental debates, through providing not just a better analysis and theoretical understanding, but also better policy proscription. Rather than claim new intellectual territory, the intention is to suggest potential creative opportunities for linking economic geography’s strengths with those insights from other theoretical perspectives. In particular, this article focuses upon linking insights from ecological modernization theory, developed by environmental sociologists, with regulationist approaches.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2006.tb00296.x

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