Sustainable Development or Ecological Modernization? An Exploratory Analysis

Abstract

This article has been developed with the mainly objective of investigate what expression has the deepest theoretical contributions for indicate the ways for which the sustainable development can putted in action: the sustainable development itself or the ecological modernization? It was realized a theoretical, qualitative, exploratory and bibliographic research. It has been founded that the ecological modernization acquire a higher analytical point of view, so it has a more defined path and priorities more well established than the ones offered by the sustainable development.

Keywords

• Sociologia ambiental
• Modernização ecológica
• Desenvolvimento sustentável.