Abstract
Dominant environmental policy wants to be evidence-based, wants to use environmental facts. Grounded in an ethnography of the production of corporate CO 2 footprints, environmental facts are analysed as the effect of work and data processing. In the practical reality of work, environment exists in a hybrid and tactical data space. The environmental political implications make the premises of both ecological modernisation and state control of the environment questionable.
| Translated title of the contribution | Environment − »Version 2 b«: Prefiguring Ecologically Wrong Decisions and Foundations for New Environmental Politics |
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| Original language | German |
| Journal | Leviathan: Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 399-427 |
| ISSN | 0340-0425 |
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| Publication status | Published - 16 Sept 2016 |
Keywords
- environmental politics
- ecological modernisation
- carbon emissions
- corporate environmental accounting
- data
- control
- information infrastructure