Environmental Movements

'This is a valuable collection of papers about the political mechanisms of different environmental groups in various countries.' - International Affairs'The essays are written clearly and objectively, logically providing in-depth facts and information. The case studies described give excellent examples of real working situations. The reader is able to put the information contained in this book into a real global context of environmentalism in the modern world, and to gain an understanding of the dilemmas facing governments and institutionalised EMOs locally, nationally and globally.' - International Journal of Environmental Education and Information

• Environmental movements from the local to the global, Christopher Rootes; organizational change in western European environmental groups - a framework for analysis, Mario Dinai, Paolo Donati; dialectics of institutionalization - the transformation of the environmental movement in Germany, Karl-Werner Brand; the German Environmental Movement at a crossroads, Dieter Rucht, Jochen Roose; mobilizing Earth first! in Britain, Derek Wall; local activism, national organizations and the environmental movement in the United States, JoAnn Carmin; networks and mobile arrangements - organizational innovation in the US Environmental Justice Movement, David Schlosberg; consolidation through institutionalization? dilemmas of the Spanish Environmental Movement in the 1990s, Manuel Jimenez; sustaining local environmental mobilizations - groups, actions and claims in southern Europe, Maria Kousis; environmental movements, ecological modernization and political opportunity structures, Hein-Anton van der Heijden; power, politics and environmental movements in the Third World, Jeff Haynes; NGOs and the global environment facility, Zoe Young; The World Trade Organization, social movements and global environmental management, Marc Williams, Lucy Ford; acting globally, thinking locally? prospects for a global environmental movement, Christopher Rootes.