Introduction - Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P J Mol and Frederick H Buttel Globalization, Modernity and the Environment Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology - Frederick H Buttel Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity - Gert Spaargaren Modern Theories of Society and the Environment - Eugene A Rosa The Risk Society Social Constructions and Social Constrictions - William R Freudenburg Toward Analyzing the Social Construction of 'the Naturalized' as Well as 'the Natural' Globalization and Environment - Arthur P J Mol Between Apocalypse-Blindness and Ecological Modernization Environmental Social Theory for a Globalizing World Economy - Michael Redclift The Ideology of Ecological Modernization in 'Double-Risk' Societies - Leonardus Rinkevicius A Case Study of Lithuanian Environmental Policy Political Modernization Theory and Environmental Politics - Pieter Leroy and Jan van Tatenhove Ecological Modernization and Post-Ecologist Politics - Ingolfur Bl[um]uhdorn Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and 'Sustainable Development' - Ernest Garcia