Environmental movement

Abstract: Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967 The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books that changed our world," and it has been called the "Book of Genesis for environmentalists" For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness Char Miller's foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment

Abstract: Environmental concerns have begun to reshape the landscape in which global organizations compete. The demands and influences of the environmental movement are evident in the dollar value size of th...

Abstract: Introduction 1. Social movements, contentious actions, and social networks: 'from metaphor to substance'? PART I. INDIVIDUAL NETWORKS 2. Social Networks Matter. But How? 3. Movement development and organizational networks: The role of 'single members' in the German Nazi party, 1925-1930 PART II. INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS 4. Networks in opposition: Linking organizations through activists in the Polish People's Republic 5. 'Leaders' or brokers? Positions and influence in social movement networks 6. Community embeddedness and collaborative governance in the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement PART III. NETWORKING THE POLITICAL PROCESS 7. Contentious connections in Great Britain, 1828-1834 8. Networks, diffusion, and cycles of collective action 9. Movement in context: Thick networks and Japanese environmental protest PART IV. THEORIES OF NETWORKS, MOVEMENTS, AND COLLECTIVE ACTION 10. Why do networks matter? Rationalist and structuralist interpretations 11. Cross-talk in movements: Reconceiving the culture-network link 12. Beyond structural analysis: toward a more dynamic understanding of social movements 13. Networks and social movements: A research programme

Abstract: Through a study of the emergent U.S. wind energy sector, 1978–1992, this paper examines how large-scale social movements external to an industry can influence the creation of new market opportunities and hence encourage entrepreneurship. We theorize that through the construction and propagation of cognitive frameworks, norms, values, and regulatory structures, and by offering a preexisting social structure, social movement organizations influence whether entrepreneurs attempt to start ventures in emerging sectors. We find that the direct and indirect effects of social resources (e.g., environmental groups) had a larger impact on entrepreneurial activity in this sector than the availability of natural resources such as land with high-quality wind. Greater numbers of environmental movement organization members increased nascent entrepreneurial activity, and this effect was mediated by favorable state regulatory policy. Greater membership numbers also enhanced the effects of important natural resources, mark...