Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Governing environmental flows in global modernity / Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Hans Bruyninckx -- Toward a sociology of environmental flows : a new agenda for twenty-first-century environmental sociology / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren -- The environmental state and environmental flows : the need to reinvent the nation-state / Martin Jänicke -- Looking through the state at environmental flows and governance / Dimitris Stevis and Hans Bruyninckx -- Detached flows or grounded place-making projects? / Zsuzsa Gille -- Globalization, environmental reform, and U.S. hegemony / Frederick H. Buttel -- Governing nature? On the global complexity of biodiversity conservation / C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen -- Governing climate risk : a study of international rivers / Itay Fischhendler -- Environmental governance of global food flows : the case of labeling strategies / Peter Oosterveer -- Greening transnational buildings : between global flows and local places / Luciana M.S. Presas and Arthur P.J. Mol -- Environment, mobility, and the accleration of time : a sociological analysis of transport flows in modern life / Mette Jensen -- Epilogue : Environmental flows and twenty-first-century environmental social sciences / Frederick H. Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, and Arthur P.J. Mol.

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