INTEGRATING & ARTICULATING ENVIRONMENTS (Integrated Assessment Studies)

180 Pages·2003·1.2 MB·English

by  Goksen

INTEGRATING AND ARTICULATING ENVIRONMENTS:
A CHALLENGE FOR NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT STUDIES
Series Editors: P. Martens, J. Rothmans
International Centre for Integrative Studies,
Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Advisory Board: M.B. Beck
Environmental Informatics and Control Program,
Warnell School of Forest Resources,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
J. Robinson
Sustainable Development Research Institute and
Department of Geography, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
H.J. Schnellnhuber
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Potsdam, Gemany;
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, Research,
Norwich, UK
INTEGRATING AND
ARTICULATING ENVIRONMENTS:
A CHALLENGE FOR NORTHERN
AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
Editors
Fato(cid:250) Gök(cid:250)en (Department of Sociology, Koç University,
Istanbul, Turkey)
Ørnulf Seippel (Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway)
Martin O’Brien (Department of Applied Social Science,
Lancaster University)
Ünal Zenginobuz (Department of Economics, Bo(cid:247)aziçi
University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Fikret Adaman (Department of Economics, Bo(cid:247)aziçi
University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Jesper Grolin (The e-Parliament – formerly with Department
for Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark)
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CONTENTS
THE CONTRIBUTORS..............................................................................IX
PREFACE................................................................................................XI
LIST OF FIGURES..................................................................................XIII
LIST OF TABLES.....................................................................................XV
Martin O’Brien, Ørnulf Seippel, Fato(cid:250) Gök(cid:250)en
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................1
ARTICULATING,INTEGRATING AND LIVING WITH ENVIRONMENTS......................3
OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS........................................................................................6
CONCLUDING REMARKS......................................................................................8
REFERENCES......................................................................................................9
1. Yannis Stavrakakis
ARTICULATING NATURE: THE ETHICAL AND POLITICAL
CHALLENGE OF CONSTRUCTIONISM IN RISK SOCIETIES..........11
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................11
ARTICULATING NATURE AND REALITY IN RISK SOCIETIES:FROM OBJECTIVIST
ESSENTIALISM TO DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONISM............................................12
CLARIFYING DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONISM....................................................14
ETHICAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONISM.....17
FROM DE-POLITICIZATION TO RE-POLITICIZATION.............................................21
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................26
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................27
2. Murat Arsel
RISK SOCIETY AT EUROPE’S PERIPHERY? THE CASE OF THE
BERGAMA RESISTANCE IN TURKEY................................................29
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................29
BERGAMA.........................................................................................................30
CYANIDE DEATH?........................................................................................31
ENVIRONMENTALIST CONCERNS..................................................................32
ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS................................................................................32
LEGAL ENVIRONMENTS................................................................................33
RISK SOCIETY....................................................................................................34
DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BERGAMA MOVEMENT..............................37
GOLDEN FUTURE?.............................................................................................44
CONCLUSIONS...................................................................................................46
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................48
3. C.S.A. (KRIS) VANKOPPEN
PARTICIPATORY NATURE MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL
DIFFERENCE: GENERAL REFLECTIONS AND ONE SPECIFIC CASE:
TURKISH MIGRANTS IN THE NETHERLANDS................................51
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................51
THE‘NORTHERN’VIEW OF NATURE...................................................................52
THE ARCADIAN APPROACH IN NATURE CONSERVATION...............................54
THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFEWORLD................................................................56
NATURE POLICY IN DEBATE.........................................................................56
ACASE OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE:TURKISH MIGRANTS IN
THE NETHERLANDS............................................................................................58
SOCIO-CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS...............................................................58
NATURE VALUATION AND NATURE RECREATION OF TURKISH MIGRANTS
IN THE NETHERLANDS..................................................................................60
EVALUATING THE CASE...............................................................................61
PERSPECTIVES ON PARTICIPATION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE........................62
THE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION PERSPECTIVE........................................63
THE ECOTOURISM PERSPECTIVE...................................................................64
THE INTERACTIVE NATURE DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE.............................66
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................67
REFERENCES....................................................................................68
4. Fikret Adama, Fato(cid:250) Gök(cid:250)en, E. Ünal Zeginobuz
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITIZENS’ PARTICIPATION IN
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT: THE CASE OF ISTANBUL......73
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................73
METHODOLOGY................................................................................................76
DESIGN AND SAMPLE OF THE QUANTITATIVE PHASE....................................76
MEASURES USED IN THE QUANTITATIVE PHASE...........................................77
DESIGN AND SAMPLE OF THE QUALITATIVE PHASE......................................79
RESULTS OF THE QUANTITATIVE PHASE.............................................................80
UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS................................................................................80
BIVARIATE ANALYSIS..................................................................................84
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS...........................................................................84
RESULTS OF THE QUALITATIVE PHASE...............................................................85
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS.........................................................87
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................89
5. Anna Olofsson, Saman Rashid, Susanna, Öhman
THE DIVISION OF ATTITUDES TO GM FOOD BETWEEN THE
NORTH AND SOUTH OF EUROPE.......................................................91
INTRODUCTION 91
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 92
PUBLIC POLICY IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF EUROPE.................................94
MATERIAL AND METHODS.................................................................................95
VARIABLES USED IN THE MODEL.................................................................96
ECONOMETRIC SPECIFICATION.....................................................................98
INTERPRETATION OF THE SURVEY RESULTS.................................................98
RESULTS............................................................................................................98
ATTITUDES TO GM FOOD IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF EUROPE.....................99
CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................103
REFERENCES...................................................................................................106
6. Jeppe Laessoe
ACQUISITION AND DOMESTICATION OF NEW HOUSEHOLD
TECHNOLOGIES - SOMEDYNAMICS BEHIND GROWTH IN
MATERIAL CONSUMPTION...............................................................109
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................109
APPROACH......................................................................................................110
THE BLIND SPOT OF THE ECOLOGICAL MODERNIST DISCOURSE..................110
THEORETICAL GUIDELINES........................................................................113
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH..................................................................118
FINDINGS.........................................................................................................120
SOME CONSUMPTION-BOOSTING DYNAMICS IN MODERN FAMILIES............120
LIBIDINOUS ASPECTS.................................................................................131
DOMESTICATION:ASSIMILATION OR ACCOMODATION?.............................133
CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................138
REFERENCES...................................................................................................141
7. Arthur P.J. Mol
BALANCING THE CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
INTEGRATION......................................................................................143
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................143
ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION AND INTEGRATION .........................................144
ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION..................................................................144
AND INTEGRATION....................................................................................145
SUB-NATIONAL INTEGRATION:THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND
WISE USE MOVEMENTS ....................................................................................146
INTEGRATION WITHIN THE NATION-STATE:THE NETHERLANDS.......................149
SUPRANATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRATION:WTO,EU AND NAFTA........152
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO).......................................................152
THE EUROPEAN UNION...............................................................................155
THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA)........................156
SUMMING UP..............................................................................................158
CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................159
REFERENCES...................................................................................................159

THE CONTRIBUTORS
Fikret Adaman, Bo(cid:247)aziçi University, Turkey
Murat Arsel, Cambridge University, U.K.
Fato(cid:250) Gök(cid:250)en,Koç University, Turkey
Jeppe Laessoe, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
Arthur P.J. Mol, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Martin O’Brien, University of Lancaster, UK
Susanna Öhman, Mid Sweden University
Anna Olofsson, Mid Sweden University
Saman Rashid, Mid Sweden University
Ørnulf Seippel, Institutt for Samfunnsforskning, Norway
Yannis Stavrakakis, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
C.S.A. (Kris) Van Koppen, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University,
Wageningen, The Netherlands
E. Ünal Zenginobuz, Bo(cid:247)aziçi University, Turkey