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Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany

Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Monographs in German History, Band 21 1. Aufl.

von: William T. Markham
44,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.08.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450302
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	416

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German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating and sometimes dramatic story of these organizations from their origins at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, not only describing how they reacted to powerful social movements, including the homeland protection and socialist movements in the early years of the twentieth century, the Nazi movement, and the anti-nuclear and new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s, but also examining strategies for survival in periods like the current one, when environmental concerns are not at the top of the national agenda. Previous analyses of environmental organizations have almost invariably viewed them as parts of larger social structures, that is, as components of social movements, as interest groups within a political system, or as contributors to civil society. This book, by contrast, starts from the premise that through the use of theories developed specifically to analyze the behavior of organizations and NGOs we can gain additional insight into why environmental organizations behave as they do.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
 Introduction
 Chapter 1. Environmental Organizations: Theoretical Considerations Chapter 2. The Origins of Nature Protection Organizations in Germany: Conservative Reactionaries, Protectors of Nature, and Social Democracy at the Beginning of the Century Chapter 3. Nazism, the War, and Its Aftermath: The Causes and Consequences of Right Wing Ecology Chapter 4. Confrontation and Counterculture: Ecology from the Left in a Turbulent Era Chapter 5. Nature and Environmental Protection Eastern Style: Environmental Organizations in the German Democratic Republic Chapter 6. New Challenges at Century’s End Chapter 7. The Social Context of Environmental Organizations at the Beginning of a New Century Chapter 8. Major Environmental Organizations in Germany: Four Profiles Chapter 9. Dilemmas of Internal Structure: Professionalization and Centralization Chapter 10. Dilemmas of Resource Acquisition: The Perils of Fundraising Chapter 11. Dilemmas of Goals and Strategies: Confrontation, Cooperation, and Competition Chapter 12. Concluding Observations
 References Index

Autorenportrait

William T. Markham is Professor of Sociology, Chancellor’s Resident Fellow in the International Honors College, and incoming Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is author of two other books and numerous journal articles on environmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations and civil society, the sociology of organizations, and social inequalities, and recently coedited a book on nature protection in Western nations. He has held visiting appointments at Wellesley College, the University of Texas, Humboldt University and the University of Essen in Germany, Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and the University of Buea in Cameroon. He is the recipient of three Fulbright awards. He is currently working on a book about environmental NGOs in Cameroon.