Protecting Nature

Organizations and Networks in Europe and the USA

AvC. S.A. (Kris) van Koppen,William T. Markham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

This book offers a comparative analysis of organizations and networks involved in nature protection in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the USA. It traces their development from their origins, more than a century ago, to the present day. Throughout this period, nature protection has remained an enduring concern to civil society and continues to be a major stream within environmentalism. However, strategies, public support, and political success vary greatly among the countries studied. Combining rich empirical evidence and theoretical analysis, the book sheds light on the important challenges nature protection faces today.Providing a detailed description of all the major nature protection organizations and networks, including overviews of their current membership, activities, and as far as available, budgets, Protecting Nature will be of great interest to lecturers and postgraduate students in social science fields, as well as researchers in the fields of environmental policy, environmental NGOs, social movements, civil society, nature management and policy. Members of nature protection, environmental and other civil society organizations who seek a better understanding of the historical development of nature protection organizations and networks, as well as the strategies employed by those organizations, will also find much to interest them in this book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-12-21
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781845429706

Utforska kategorier

Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Edited by C.S.A (Kris) van Koppen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and William T. Markham, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US

Recensioner i media

'This book makes a long overdue contribution to the ongoing debate on the role of nature protection organizations and networks. The editors have brought together eleven respected sociologists to trace and evaluate the links between nature protection organizations and society in eight European countries and the United States. Using analytical frameworks ranging from organization theory to social movements approaches, the authors describe the social networks that organizations promoting nature protection have woven, which, in turn, have helped many of them to survive and adapt to changing political and economic circumstances. Uncovering these strategies is crucial to understanding how environmental issues are being dealt with via new forms of governance today. The book will be very useful to scholars in organizational studies, social movements, environmental sociology, and environmental politics.'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:1. Nature Protection in Nine Countries: A Framework for AnalysisWilliam T. Markham and C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen2. Nature Protection Organizations in EnglandChristopher Rootes3. Nature Protection Associations in FranceCécilia Claeys-Mekdade and Marie Jacqué4. Nature Protection in Germany: Persistence and Change in a Turbulent CenturyWilliam T. Markham5. Nature Protection Organizations in Italy: From Elitist Fervour to Confluence with EnvironmentalismGiorgio Osti6. Dutch Nature Protection between Policy and PublicC.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen7. Trees, Ecology and Biological Diversity: Norwegian Nature Protection and EnvironmentalismØrnulf Seippel8. Nature Protection NGOs in Poland: Between Tradition, Professionalism and RadicalismPiotr Gliński and Małgorzata Koziarek9. The Historical and Contemporary Roles of Nature Protection Organizations in SwedenMagnus Boström10. The ‘Nature’ of Environmentalism: Nature Protection in the USAAngela G. Mertig11. Nature Protection in Western Environmentalism: A Comparative AnalysisC.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen and William T. MarkhamIndex