The Third Land Reform is driven by an official discourse of "modernization" that deems the endogenous rural-urbanization as backward (not modern).
The nomadism/pastoralism debate has always been closely connected to discourses about modernization theories whenever development issues were at stake.
Environmental leadership studies, based on such an understanding of power, usually follow the discourse of Ecological Modernization that highlights flexible and cost-efficient problem solving.
At the periphery of the China-Vietnam border, Vietnamese women join in these modernization projects and share local discourses in terms of what constitutes personal success based on a number of facilitating factors.
She links Sarmiento's remarks on modernization and culture to the American discourse of expansion and progress of the 19th century.
Through exploration of 'net positive' or 'regenerative' development lenses and the traditional sustainability literature, the conceptualization and approaches to achieve sustainable development and ecological modernization are expanded to articulate and to explore the evolving sustainability discourse, 'regenerative sustainability'.
Numerous local political discourses concur with this idea, insisting that the modernization of their country will happen through the European model, rather than the Russian alternative, and that by doing so, will become increasingly attractive destination or transit states for potential migrants.
In reviewing the arguments and legitimacy of the push for private sector involvement in China's urban water governance, there is a strong relation to the second discourse on efficiency, capital investments and service coverage, while ideas of state-failure and political modernization incidentally emerge.
Boiled down to its essentials, however, the argument links his discourse theory with an analysis of the demands inherent in modern legal systems, which Habermas understands in light of the history of Western modernization.
The British colonizers established a water management discourse that described the colonized margins as backward and traditional people who need to empower with water and agricultural modernization (D'Souza 2006:62006
