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Book Synopsis Environmental Protest in Western Europe by : Chris Rootes
Download or read book Environmental Protest in Western Europe written by Chris Rootes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the study of protest events, this text is a systematically comparative study of environmental protests in a representative cross-section of EU member states.
Book Synopsis Environmental Protest and the State in France by : G. Hayes
Download or read book Environmental Protest and the State in France written by G. Hayes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the issues and strategies which have characterized the environmental campaigns mounted against recent controversial infrastructure projects in France. Focusing on the changing nature of policymaking in the Fifth Republic as a key factor in the organization of each protest, Graeme Hayes asks why some protests succeed where others fail, and how we should understand the relationship between states and social movements in general.
Book Synopsis Environmental Protest in Western Europe by : Christopher Rootes
Download or read book Environmental Protest in Western Europe written by Christopher Rootes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of environmentalism has been one of the more remarkable developments in the politics of western societies in recent decades. However, as environmental awareness has become more generalized, the forms of expression of environmental concern have changed. Established environmental movement organizations have become embedded in policy networks, but, in some countries, there has been a resurgence of environmental radicalism. New groups, adopting innovative tactics, have mounted spectacular and disruptive protests. These developments pose interesting questions for social scientists and policy-makers. Has the institutionalization of established environmental organizations demobilized their supporters and reduced them to a passive, credit-card waving 'conscience' constituency? Has direct participation in environmental protest become the specialized activity of smaller numbers of people? Has there been a decline in the total volume of environmental protest, or is it merely that the forms of protest have changed? Have the protest repertoires of established groups moderated over time, or have they been stimulated by the emergence of more radical groups to adopt more challenging tactics? Has environmental protest become more confrontational? Do protests employ different repertoires of action according to the issues at stake? How does the incidence of protest vary over time and from one country to another? Is there evidence of a Europeanization of either the issues or the forms of environmental protest? These are some of the questions this volume addresses. Based upon an analysis of the protest events reported in one quality newspaper in each of eight countries during the ten years 1988 to 1997, this is the first systematically comparative study of environmental protest in a representative cross-section of EU member states. It breaks entirely new ground in the study of environmental politics in Europe and is a major contribution to the study of protest events.
Book Synopsis The Green Challenge by : Dick Richardson
Download or read book The Green Challenge written by Dick Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Challenge is an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the development of Green parties in Western Europe, and includes an account of the development since 1989 of an East European Green movement. Blending theory and empirical analysis, the book contains chapters on each of the main western European cases and on a number of other less-studied ones. These are designed to demonstrate the shifting balance of party-political competition the factor the authors believe most strongly influences the fortunes of the Greens. The editors also integrate a valuable analysis of the environmentally-degraded Czech Republic, where the Green parties' lack of electoral success has puzzled many observers.
Book Synopsis The Green Movement Worldwide by : Matthias Finger
Download or read book The Green Movement Worldwide written by Matthias Finger and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplementary volume in the series Research in social movements, conflicts and change, containing contributions on the Green movement. Topics covered include: the west European environmental movement; the Green movement in the USSR and Eastern Europe; and the failure of the US Greens.
Book Synopsis Environmental Movements by : Christopher Rootes
Download or read book Environmental Movements written by Christopher Rootes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.
Book Synopsis Internationalisation of European Environmental Movements by : Julian Ostendorf
Download or read book Internationalisation of European Environmental Movements written by Julian Ostendorf and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject History of Europe - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 2,0, University of Warwick (Department of History), course: Politics of Protest: Social Movements in Western Europe since the 1960s, language: English, abstract: Das Essay untersucht die Transformierung von Umweltprotest westeuropäischer Länder seit den 1990er Jahren. Dabei wird die Entwicklung der Umweltpolitik in den Blick genommen, die sich auf EU-Ebene und internationale Ebene wie der WTO zunehmend verlagert. Dabei wird der Fragestellung nachgegangen, ob sich aufgrund dieser Herausforderung für nationale Umweltbewegungen, einen "neue", transnationale Umweltbewegung herausbildet, die gemeinsame Ziele verfolgt und auf den gleichen Normen beruht. Dazu werden Lobbystrategien, konlifktives Protestverhalten sowie offiziele Dokumente der entpsprechenden Umweltbewegungen und - Organisationen untersucht.
Book Synopsis Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic by : Adam Fagan
Download or read book Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic written by Adam Fagan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . the book s contents will appeal to academics working within the fields of environmental politics or central and east European studies, as well as to political or social scientists with an interest in SMO development. David Benson, Environmental Politics Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic is a succinct, well written and scrupulously researched book. . . Sean Hanley, Europe Asia Studies . . . this book provides a well-researched survey of the development of the environmental movement in the Czech Republic and of its role in relation to the democratic transition process. . . For scholars and students looking at environmental politics in Central and Eastern Europe, it provides a wealth of information that will be useful in conducting comparative studies. Alberto Costi, European Environment Fagan has written a well-researched analysis of the evolving role and status of Czech EMOs since the overthrow of communism. John M. Kramer, Slavic Review This volume presents an original study of the development of the environmental movement in the Czech Republic, particularly in relation to the democratic transition process. It offers a broad, historical analysis of the evolution of the movement through the 1990s to the present day, and presents rich case studies on a number of environmental organisations. The detailed empirical work reveals interesting insights into the character of contemporary Czech politics and the difficulties faced by the environmental movement. This is a well researched and well written piece of work which will make a valuable contribution to the existing literature. James Meadowcroft, University of Sheffield, UK Since a handful of environmental activists helped to bring down the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, the arena of environmental politics has offered a valuable lens on the transition process, providing a unique insight into the contradictory and highly contingent relationship between democratisation and neo-liberalism. Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic offers a radical perspective on the democratisation process, revealing the extent to which the consolidation of a politically efficacious and diverse civil society is far more complex than the earlier generation of commentators acknowledged. The environmental movement has not flourished under political democracy; its radical activists have been marginalized and targeted by the state, their ideologies and strategies compromised and their critical voice silenced. Yet the book concludes that whilst the mainstream environmental movement has become institutionalised and appears incapable of representing community interests, the environmental issue retains the capacity to mobilise, this time against the neo-liberal agenda of the democratic government. This definitive account of the evolution of the Czech environmental movement since 1990 offers a radical evaluation of the institutions and practice of political democracy, and challenges some of the certainties of social movement theory. Although focused on the Czech Republic, the book will undoubtedly contribute to a better understanding of the role of environmental movements within contemporary politics throughout the world. It will be welcomed by political and social scientists with an interest in Central and Eastern Europe, and academics and students with an interest in environmental politics.
Book Synopsis Environmental Action in Eastern Europe by : Barbara Jancar-Webster
Download or read book Environmental Action in Eastern Europe written by Barbara Jancar-Webster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental crisis in Eastern Europe - air and water pollution, toxic waste dumps, and unsafe nuclear facilities - has been vividly documented since the revolution of 1989. Not only did the communist states have an abysmal record of environmental destruction, but the issue of environmental protection and safety proved to be one of the msot powerful catalysts of unified opposition to these regimes. This collection of essays by both Western and East European experts examines the efforts to develop strategies for dealing with the crisis, both by governments and at the grassroots level of newly emerging Green movements. Among the countries represented here are Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Book Synopsis The Greening of Western Europe by : John Drew Froeliger
Download or read book The Greening of Western Europe written by John Drew Froeliger and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patterns of Protest in Western Europe by : Peter Shipley
Download or read book Patterns of Protest in Western Europe written by Peter Shipley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nature Protests by : Edward K. Snajdr
Download or read book Nature Protests written by Edward K. Snajdr and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and the state. In communist Eastern Europe, environmental activism fueled the rise of democratic movements and the overthrow of totalitarianism. Yet, as this study of environmentalism in Slovakia shows, concern for the environment declined during the post-communist period, an ironic victim of its own earlier success. Through ethnographic interviews and archival materials, Edward Snajdr explains why Slovakia's ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidly despite the persistence of serious environmental problems in the region. Synthesizing theory in anthropology and political ecology, he suggests that the fate of environmentalism in Slovakia marks the beginning of a global post-ecological age, where nature is culturally maginalized in new ways. In addition to its significance for policy makers, this book will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, sociologists, political ecologists, and scholars of East European and post-Soviet studies.
Book Synopsis Environmental Problems of East Central Europe by : Francis W. Carter
Download or read book Environmental Problems of East Central Europe written by Francis W. Carter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition, the progress made in the last decade to solve the environmental problems described in the first edition is assessed. The attempts to bring environmental legislation into line with West European norms is also described. Environmental Problems of East-Central Europe looks at air and water pollution, modern farming, water supplies, waste management and landscape protection. These topics are placed within economic, social and political profiles, as spending on a clean environment must be reconciled with welfare spending and the safeguarding of jobs, European Union assistance, civil society and the work of environmental NGOs are also discussed. All of these matters are considered within the context of the wider geographical area and then by each individual country, including the previously communist states lying to the west of the Soviet Union (now with the former federal states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia broken up into seven different entities) and a review of the former Soviet Union with particular reference to the Baltic States. Environmental Problems in East-Central Europe provides a wealth of up-to-date reference material, with a vast amount of supporting literature on environmental conditions and the functioning of civil society and a map of each country. The environment is being taken seriously by them all, such is the influence of the Rio sustainability agenda in general and the EU environmental 'acquis' in particular. The book reveals that Eastern Europe is not a blighted area, but in some respects has a higher biodiversity than Western Europe. Although there is enormous waste and inefficiency in energy use, people actually consume relatively little and the East therefore has some lessons for the West in terms of managing on the bases of 'fair share' of the earth's resources.
Book Synopsis Social Movements, Public Spheres and the European Politics of the Environment by : Hein-Anton van der Heijden
Download or read book Social Movements, Public Spheres and the European Politics of the Environment written by Hein-Anton van der Heijden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change.
Download or read book 1968 in Europe written by M. Klimke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.
Book Synopsis Nature and the Iron Curtain by : Astrid Kirchhof
Download or read book Nature and the Iron Curtain written by Astrid Kirchhof and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book explores similarities and differences among several nations with different economies and political systems, and highlights connections between environmental movements in Eastern and Western Europe.
Book Synopsis Social Movement Studies in Europe by : Olivier Fillieule
Download or read book Social Movement Studies in Europe written by Olivier Fillieule and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
