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CHAPTER 4
Ecological Modernization & Its Alternatives:
Five Discursive Frameworks for Sustainable
EU Transport Policy Making
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4.1 Introduction..................................................................................................... 106
4.2 Ecological Modernization: The Dominant Discursive Framework ................ 109
4.2.1 Introducing the Framework..................................................................... 109
4.2.2 Ecological Modernization and Sustainable Development ...................... 114
4.2.3 Ecological Modernization as a Framework for EU Transport Policy..... 117
4.3 Reflexive Modernization ................................................................................ 123
4.3.1 Introducing the Framework..................................................................... 123
4.3.2 Reflexive (Auto)mobility as a Framework for EU Transport Policy ..... 130
4.4 Communicative Rationality ............................................................................ 136
4.4.1 Introducing the Framework..................................................................... 136
4.4.2 Communicative Rationality as a Framework for EU Transport Policy.. 141
4.5 Political Economy........................................................................................... 146
4.5.1 Introducing the Framework..................................................................... 146
4.5.2 Political Economy as a Framework for EU Transport Policy................. 149
4.6 Renunciation ................................................................................................... 159
4.6.1 Introducing the Framework..................................................................... 159
4.6.2 Renunciation as a Framework for EU Transport Policy......................... 166
4.7 Addendum: The “Institutionalist” Focus on EU Space and Governance ....... 170
4.8 Concluding Remarks....................................................................................... 173