Ecological Modernization – a Paradise of Feasibility but no General Solution
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Ecological Modernization (EM) intends to preserve or restore environmental quality by resource-efficient innovation. Today there are several synonyms or similar concepts such as, “eco-innovation”, “green development” “green growth”, or transition towards “green economy” (OECD 2011; UNEP 2011). This environmental policy approach has meanwhile become a well-established strategy and stimulated nothing less than a real Global Industrial Revolution.
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Santiago Acosta (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
Santiago Acosta left his native Venezuela in 2011 to continue his graduate studies in the United States. He started out at San Francisco State University, then headed to the opposite side of the country to do his Ph.D. at Columbia University, and then postdoc work at SUNY-Old Westbury on Long Island.
Now an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where he specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, Acosta says he returns to Venezuela most every year, even as the country has plunged into economic and social turmoil under an authoritarian regime.
“ My parents are there, and I don’t want to lose my connection with the country,” he said. “I stay in touch with researchers there, with writers, with cultural institutions that are working on many interesting initiatives. And I try to collaborate with them if I can.”
We caught up with Acosta for the latest edition of Office Hours, a Q&A series that introduces Yale newcomers to the broader university community.
What is your current research focus?
Santiago Acosta : My book project examines how culture and aesthetics engage in and respond to large environmental transformations. Specifically, it studies the relation between the cultural field and the oil state in Venezuela during the 1970s. This was the period of the great oil bonanza in Venezuela. Conflicts in the Middle East led to the 1973 oil crisis and oil-producing countries benefited from that. Venezuela was rich, and the country launched a huge modernization program, taking advantage of that windfall. The government invested quite a lot of money in public art, museums, publishing houses, stipends for artists. I studied a few cases, one related to public abstract art that was incorporated into new infrastructure and urban modernization projects.
Another example has to do with urban photography and how the state financed photography books about Caracas, the capital city, which reflected the environmental and social changes of the time. The second part of the book deals with the artistic responses to the downfall of the oil boom in the 1980s.
You’re also a published poet. Does your poetry have an environmental focus?
Acosta : Yes, ecological thinking has always been present in my poetry, but especially in my most recent collection, “The Coming Desert.” It’s coming out in a bilingual edition this year. It has to do with the post-apocalyptic imagery that haunts the present and the possibility of ecological catastrophe that’s unfolding every day. I play with that sense of ecological dread— maybe trying to exorcize it through my writing — often in connection with the political crisis in Venezuela, which is an important topic for me. I make that connection between the authoritarian decay in Venezuela and the global environmental crisis.
What are you currently teaching?
Acosta: I’m teaching an undergraduate class about energy in Latin America, seen through art and literature. It’s a history of the relation between energy and capitalist development in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries. I start with manifestations of oil capitalism in the early 20th century. We talk a lot about how some artists and intellectuals have represented the world of oil in their work. We also look at the ecological impact of hydroelectric dams and how some artists have approached this in their work. I’m also teaching a graduate seminar that introduces students to recent scholarly, literary, and artistic works in the environmental humanities with a focus on Latin America.
What are your interests outside of work?
Acosta: Reading and writing poetry are deeply personal practices that I treasure. Also, I’m a big fan of music. I collect vinyl records. I like jazz, Latin American music, classic rock, indie rock, African music. I also spend a lot of time playing electric and acoustic guitar. I have many interests!
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Ecological Modernization Theory (EMT) started as a school of thought that focused on the required institutional changes in modern industrial societies so that it is possible to overcome the ecological crisis caused by the societies themselves (Mol 1995).The basic idea behind this theory is that it is possible to solve the current environmental problems by means of the existing institutions in ...
Ecological modernization is a school of thought that argues that both the state and the market can work together to protect the environment. It has gained increasing attention among scholars and policymakers in the last several decades internationally. It is an analytical approach as well as a policy strategy and environmental discourse (Hajer, 1995).
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Source: Christoff (1996). Janicke's (2008) EM-friendly framework of environmental regulation (shown in Table 1.4) is a fair representation of the vast middle ground between these representations of 'weak' and 'strong' conceptions but has a clear leaning to 'strong' EM.Mol (2001), in his comparison of EM with the treadmill of production concept, also sits in the middle but with a ...
We raise four challenges to the claim of ecological modernization theory (EMT) that continued modernization is necessary for ecological sustainability. First, EMT needs to go beyond merely demonstrating that societies modify their institutions in reaction to environmental problems and show that such modifications lead to ecological improvements.
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As the term ecological modernization has grown popular among leading politicians and policy-makers, so has the dilution of it. In this paper, we make an attempt to move away from the purely heuristic use of ecological modernization, by clarifying both its origins and meanings.
The theory of ecological modernization has received growing attention over the past decade, but in the process, it has been interpreted in conflicting and sometimes contradictory ways. In this ...
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Ecological modernization assumed that existing environmental problems can be internalized by political, economic, and social institutions and can care for the sustainability. ... This is clearly a great challenge and has generated a lot of research into what sustainable development means, how it might be operationalized and how it can best be ...
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Abstract. Ecological modernization is an approach to addressing environmental problems that suggests ecological crisis can be resolved politically, economically, and technologically in the context ...
I studied a few cases, one related to public abstract art that was incorporated into new infrastructure and urban modernization projects. Another example has to do with urban photography and how the state financed photography books about Caracas, the capital city, which reflected the environmental and social changes of the time.
Core Themes of Ecological Modernisation Theory. From the initial contributions onwards, the aim of Ecological Modernisation Theory has been to analyse how contemporary industrialised societies deal with environmental crises. The core of all studies in the tradition of Ecological Modernisation focuses on (existing and programmed) environmental ...
modernization. They find that ecological modernization as a theoretical avenue has strong relevance to environmental planning and management in many industrialized countries and as such provides a suitable framework within which to explore policy processes. Much of the discussion concerning EM has been theoretical in nature.
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