Ecological modernisation theory: towards a critical ecopolitics of change?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The literature on ecological modernisation (EM) is reviewed from a critical political ecology viewpoint. Critical political ecology is centrally concerned with how change in industrial societies occurs. Does the EM literature presently offer a theory of ecopolitical change that is both coherent and relevant to the contexts prevailing today in industrialised countries? Two strands in the EM literature are discussed: the functional and socio-political accounts of change. From the perspective of critical political ecology, EM thinking does not provide an ethically or politically coherent argument for more radical change. The possibilities for elaborating a more nuanced ‘post-EM’ account of ecopolitical change that incorporates a politics of conflict and an expansion of the scope of politics itself are evaluated.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it