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Author : Roland Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Local Green Politics in West German Cities written by Roland Roth and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Scharf
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The German Greens written by Thomas Scharf and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Greens' contribution to the changing nature of contemporary German local politics and the effect of local political involvement upon the Greens themselves. The author shows how the established 'unpolitical' nature of Germany's local politics has given way to overtly political and confrontational approaches. This has occurred primarily under the influence of the Greens and the 'New Local Politics'. The book appears at an important juncture for the German Greens with questions being posed about their relevance in a post-unification Germany.
Author : Elim Papadakis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317540301
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Green Movement in West Germany (RLE: German Politics) written by Elim Papadakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Movement in Germany is widely regarded as one of the most powerful expressions of popular opposition to government policies. A broad analysis of this powerful group is made in this book, showing that the origins of the movement relate to the general protests against industrialisation in the nineteenth century and also to more recent forms of protest. The author assesses the challenge posed by the Green Movement to established groups and organisations both in proposing alternative policies and in a long run of electoral successes. The Green Movement has evidently had a great impact on assumptions about defence, welfare and environmental policies. Data from major surveys on public attitudes and interviews with senior officials complete the picture of the practical and theoretical dimensions of the Green Movement.
Author : Thomas Stephan Scharf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The role of the Greens in the local politics of West Germany written by Thomas Stephan Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Coleman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Rhetoric of the People written by William E. Coleman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-01-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1983, when the West German public elected several of their party members to representative seats in the Bundestag, the Greens (Die Grunen) have been a political force. A Rhetoric of the People studies how the German Greens have evolved a rhetorical style that is characteristic of a social movement, voicing citizen dissatisfaction with representative democracy and the insensitive decision making of traditional political and economic structures. Authors Coleman and Coleman discuss the Greens as part of a significant global environmental movement, and as a voice that advocates a new politics based on the key notions of ecology, equal rights, grassroots democracy, self-determination, Third World concerns, and peace. A Rhetoric of the People concentrates on the Greens' rhetorical vision as presented in their public utterances and political platforms. To furnish a context for appreciating the Greens' persuasive efforts, the authors examine green argumentative stances in general, then present a brief review of the global environmental movement and a discussion of the evolution of the German Green Party. What follows is essentially a descriptive study that highlights the verbal discourse of the Greens as revealed in their official party statements. The authors conclude by exploring some of the issues and problems presently facing the Greens, and contemplating the future of the party. Recommended for sociologists, political scientists, environmentalists, and communications scholars.
Author : Peter Engelke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781124598314
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Green City Origins written by Peter Engelke and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines West German urban environmental history between 1960 and 1990. The histories of mass motorization and of the attempt to build cities around the automobile in West Germany (the "auto-oriented city," as some planners had labeled it) are well known to historians. Less well known is the history of the reformist opposition, of the attempts to resist this automotive transformation and to forge urban models around a different set of ideals. Dissatisfied with the patterns of urban growth and development, a coalition of reformers emerged to exert greater influence on city planning processes and to refashion cities around their new ideals. This coalition consisted of planners, architects, grassroots citizens' initiatives, environmentalists, intellectuals, students, and some politicians. The reformers' central grievance concerned the effects of the auto-oriented city. They insisted that it was eroding urban residents' quality of life, safety, sense of aesthetics, and emotional ties to urban history and culture, as well as deteriorating the natural and built environments. Their agenda was both negative (they wanted to stop what they viewed as outsized and destructive infrastructural projects) and positive (they wanted to develop and use urban space according to their social, aesthetic, and environmental ideals). Moreover, their agenda contained a significant political component, as they insisted that planning practice in West Germany was undemocratic. This aspect of their agenda, and their attempts to democratize local planning processes, therefore places this study in the context of West Germany's political history. By the 1980s, the reformers had achieved partial success. They took advantage of shifting circumstances in the political and social climate to implement at least part of their agenda. Their efforts presaged current planning discourse about environmental sustainability and cities. The dissertation includes case studies of Munich and Erlangen but also draws from the experiences of other cities in West Germany and abroad. The study contains chapters on local politics, urbanism and the environmental movement, the international context, and the histories of pedestrian zones, bicycling, and traffic calming. A final chapter analyzes a contemporary planning controversy in Stuttgart in the context of this history.
Author : Werner Hülsberg
Publisher : London ; New York : Verso
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The German Greens written by Werner Hülsberg and published by London ; New York : Verso. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elim Papadakis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317540298
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Green Movement in West Germany (RLE: German Politics) written by Elim Papadakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Movement in Germany is widely regarded as one of the most powerful expressions of popular opposition to government policies. A broad analysis of this powerful group is made in this book, showing that the origins of the movement relate to the general protests against industrialisation in the nineteenth century and also to more recent forms of protest. The author assesses the challenge posed by the Green Movement to established groups and organisations both in proposing alternative policies and in a long run of electoral successes. The Green Movement has evidently had a great impact on assumptions about defence, welfare and environmental policies. Data from major surveys on public attitudes and interviews with senior officials complete the picture of the practical and theoretical dimensions of the Green Movement.
Author : Stephen Milder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108228690
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Greening Democracy written by Stephen Milder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors became the basis for a widespread anti-nuclear movement only after government officials' unrelenting support for nuclear energy caused reactor opponents to become concerned about the state of their democracy. Surprisingly, many citizens thought transnationally, looking abroad for protest strategies, cooperating with activists in other countries, and conceiving of 'Europe' as a potential means of circumventing recalcitrant officials. At this nexus between local action and global thinking, anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding their conception of democracy well beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.
Author : Janice Caulfield
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
ISBN 13 : 9780732929992
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Power and Politics in the City written by Janice Caulfield and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of community power in Brisbane analyses the challenges posed by growth and the shifting of the balance of power from the country to the city. Consists of a series of case studies focusing on discrete policy issues and key areas, and exploring topics such as relations between state and city governments and between public and private sectors, and their impact on the Brisbane community. Caulfield is a lecturer in public administration at the University of Queensland, and Wanna is a senior lecturer in politics and public policy at Griffith University.
Author : Gary C. Bryner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847694891
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Gaia's Wager written by Gary C. Bryner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can environmentalism evolve into a powerful social movement that transforms human practices in ways that are ecologically sustainable? Gary C. Bryner contends that it is in our self-interest as a species to ensure that environmental movements coalesce in the service of sustainability. From the very first Earth Day to the setting of Agenda 21 for the new millennium, this book traces the actors, the issues, and the institutions involved in moving environmentalism from a loose collection of fuzzy groups and goals to a new global force for change. Will the next phase of environmental action resemble the WTO protests in Seattle, the UN Kyoto Protocols, or a Think Tank inside the Washington Beltway? Gaia's Wager shows that movements play an important role between political parties and interest groups on the domestic scene and the unruly forces of globalization internationally. Only social movements can catalyze a response to the global environmental threat that has a chance of both capturing imaginations and institutionalizing progress toward environmental sustainability. Above all, Gaia's Wager bets on the confluence of big ideas and social action to yield a more hopeful environmental future.
Author : Jennifer L. Allen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249143
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Utopias written by Jennifer L. Allen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and disenfranchisement. By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil shock appeared to doom dreams of a better world. The eventual victory of capitalism and, seemingly, liberal democracy relieved some fears but exchanged them for complacency and cynicism. Not, however, in West Germany. Jennifer Allen showcases grassroots activism of the 1980s and 1990s that envisioned a radically different society based on community-centered politicsÑa society in which the democratization of culture and power ameliorated alienation and resisted the impotence of end-of-history narratives. BerlinÕs History Workshop liberated research from university confines by providing opportunities for ordinary people to write and debate the story of the nation. The Green Party made the politics of direct democracy central to its program. Artists changed the way people viewed and acted in public spaces by installing objects in unexpected environments, including the Stolpersteine: paving stones, embedded in residential sidewalks, bearing the names of Nazi victims. These activists went beyond just trafficking in ideas. They forged new infrastructures, spaces, and behaviors that gave everyday people real agency in their communities. Undergirding this activism was the environmentalist concept of sustainability, which demanded that any alternative to existing society be both enduring and adaptable. A rigorous but inspiring tale of hope in action, Sustainable Utopias makes the case that it is still worth believing in human creativity and the labor of citizenship.
Author : Margit Mayer
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566395168
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The German Greens written by Margit Mayer and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greens have been not only a political force and social conscience for Germany before reunification and after but also an inspiration to political groups and movements in many other countries. The Greens have raised the issues of ecology, gender, and grassroots democracy in protest against government. They have also had the rare opportunity to try converting themselves into a political party that works within the system. This is a book about their paradoxical situation and about the dilemmas all advocates of change face when they become powerful enough to negotiate with the status quo. The critical essays by German social scientists and activists also provide a detailed picture of the dynamics of the German Greens—where their support has come from, The nature of the competing factions, And The place of feminism. The editors provide a substantial introduction. The flavor and texture of the Greens—including their raucous public arguments and their innovative campaign tactics—are suggested by the political posters included in the book and by a whole section of primary documents. The documents And The essays (except for one originally written in English) have been translated from German. The result is to make available to English-speaking readers a view of a complex movement whose very name and color have become synonymous with social action in favor of the environment And The empowerment of people. Author note:Margit Mayeris Professor of Politics at the Free University of Berlin. She has also taught at the New School for Social Research And The University of California, Santa Cruz.John Elyis a long-time commentator on social movements in Germany.
Author : Hillary Angelo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673918X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book How Green Became Good written by Hillary Angelo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As projects like Manhattan’s High Line, Chicago’s 606, China’s eco-cities, and Ethiopia’s tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developments draw huge crowds thanks to the considerable efforts of city governments. But why are greening projects so widely taken up, and what good do they do? In How Green Became Good, Hillary Angelo uncovers the origins and meanings of the enduring appeal of urban green space, showing that city planners have long thought that creating green spaces would lead to social improvement. Turning to Germany’s Ruhr Valley (a region that, despite its ample open space, was “greened” with the addition of official parks and gardens), Angelo shows that greening is as much a social process as a physical one. She examines three moments in the Ruhr Valley's urban history that inspired the creation of new green spaces: industrialization in the late nineteenth century, postwar democratic ideals of the 1960s, and industrial decline and economic renewal in the early 1990s. Across these distinct historical moments, Angelo shows that the impulse to bring nature into urban life has persistently arisen as a response to a host of social changes, and reveals an enduring conviction that green space will transform us into ideal inhabitants of ideal cities. Ultimately, however, she finds that the creation of urban green space is more about how we imagine social life than about the good it imparts.
Author : Friedrich List
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National System of Political Economy written by Friedrich List and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jürgen Breuste
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030377164
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Making Green Cities written by Jürgen Breuste and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live. People, planners, designers and politicians are working towards the development of green cities. Some cities are already promoted as green cities, while others are on their way to become one. But their goals are often unclear and can include different facets. Presenting contributions from world leading researchers in the field of urban ecology, the editors provide an interdisciplinary overview of best practices and challenges in creating green cities. They show examples of how to build up these cities from bits and pieces to districts and urban extensions. Each example concludes with a summary of the collected knowledge, the learning points and how this can be used in other places. The best practices are collected from around the world – Europe, Australia, America and Asia. The new dynamic urban development of Asia is illustrated by case studies from China and the Indian subcontinent. The reader will learn which role nature can play in green cities and what the basic requirements are in terms of culture, pre-existing nature conditions, existing urban surroundings, history, design and planning.
Author : British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415074629
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Ibss: Political Science: 1991 written by British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
