Ecological Modernization at Work?

Abstract

The article focuses on Sweden's long-term program to achieve a sustainable society by 2020. The process by which this policy decision was made is explored, as well as its practical implications, which include potentially sweeping impacts on social and economic life in the push for environmental improvements. It is examined whether Swedish environmental policy reform throughout the 1990s and 2000s was largely consistent with the model of social change predicted by ecological modernization theory.