research papers on environmental movement

This essay explores the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States, delving into its historical roots, core principles, and the empirical evidence surrounding disparities in environmental outcomes. Environmental justice, defined as equal protection of environmental and public health laws for all communities, particularly gained ...

The early environmental movement was fraught with protests and confrontational strategies (see Rootes 2008). However, The Nature Conservancy is a prime example of the move to a more corporate like ...

Abstract. The impacts of environmental movements (EMs) are indirect and mediated outcomes of efforts by actors ranging from environmental NGOs to grass-roots activists to influence environmental policies and practices of governments and corporations, usually by mobilizing public opinion. With fewer resources than industry groups, EMs' impacts ...

In keeping with how politicized identities have been conceptualized within intergroup relations research, we conceptualize politicized environmental identification as identification with a group or social movement defined by a collective struggle to protect the environment (e.g., identification with environmental activists or an activist group).

Introduction. Environmental justice (EJ), which explores the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens amongst both privileged and marginalized groups, including their recognition and inclusion in decision-making processes (Schlosberg, Citation 2004), is now integral to environmental policy and planning.Scholars and policy-makers increasingly seek an understanding of whether, and how ...

Agency. Recent - and not so recent - critics of the environmental movement in the US have lambasted the bias, the lack of creativity, and the professionalism (as opposed to impassioned amateurism) in the mainstream environmental groups (Shellenberger and Nordhaus Citation 2004, Gottlieb Citation 2005).In essence, they argue environmental groups have become like any other institutionalised ...

The environmentalism movement can be traced back to the nineteenth century but its modern "phase" is anchored in the 1960s. While many philosophies have surfaced, a rough dichotomy distinguishes those seeking to maximize pristine conditions from others championing technological solutions for a better future. Dubbing these "Arcadians" and "Utilitarians", Pak herein recounts their ...

Introduction. Volunteer activist leaders are critical for sustaining and growing social movements (Carman & Nesbit, 2013; Louis et al., 2020; Mati et al., 2016).The environmental movement in particular has grown substantially over the last decade while having a heavy reliance of volunteer groups (Gulliver et al., 2021b).As such, volunteer leaders of environmental activist groups in particular ...

Public concern for the natural environment continues to grow as complex environmental problems emerge. One avenue where concern for the environment has been expressed is through activism. However, research on environmental activism, often aimed at understanding the motivations behind activist behavior, has largely focused on older adults. In this study, we extend the state of knowledge on ...

Climate Camp activists were also often professionally engaged in these topics. Almost half of respondents (44%) worked on environmental issues in some way including a third (31%) on climate change. Strikingly, over two-thirds of Greens (68%) were professionally involved in environmental issues, although somewhat fewer (22%) worked on climate ...

The modern environmental movement was born in the mid-1960s, which was a period of great turbulence. Unrest in the black commu­ ... essays. Rules for land conservation began to be established as far back as biblical times, when fields were required to lie fallow at intervals to restore the diminished productivity from uninterrupted ...

It is an oversimplification to say that the environmental movement has undergone a change from being a mass participatory social. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL 3. movement to a series of institutionalised interest groups. Like other social movement organisations, EMOs are faced with choices between professional and mass ...

Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. This article reviews literature on environmental movements (including antinuclear energy movements) according to four main aspects: the social bases and values underlying the ...

Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions among individuals, groups, and organizations that are engaged in collective action motivated by concern about environmental issues. Their forms of action and issue focuses have varied over time and from place to place. Sometimes confrontational or involving civil disobedience, they ...

The modern environmental movement was born, and there can be no doubt that Rachel Carson's Silent Spring played a major role in this process. In 1962 Carson received the Albert Schweitzer Medal of the Animal Welfare Institute for contributing to the protection of animals from deadly pesticides.

The history and nature of the new environmental movement in the United States are reviewed. Since understanding of a social movement is enhanced by learning the views and perceptions of outsiders, the continuing debate between the environmental movement and its critics is examined. First, disagreements over the nature and the severity of the so-called environmental crisis are described. Second ...

Of interest to a wide range of scholars in environmental history, law, and politics, is intended as a reader for course use and a benchmark for the field of environmental history as it continues to develop into the next century. 978--8229-8073-5. History, Environmental Science, Sustainability. Through the pages of Environmental History Review ...

The ultimate aims of the feminist movement and the environmental movement also converge, as they aim at bringing about egalitarian and non-hierarchical systems. ... (1982). Introduction. In Spretnak C. (Ed.), The politics of women's spirituality: Essays on the rise of spiritual power within the feminist movement (p. xiv). Doubleday & Co ...

The indigenous environmental movement breaks the mould, revealing unconsidered historical forces and variables involved in social struggles. The economic dynamics of capitalism and the history of internal colonialism must be incorporated into an account of the evolution of the indigenous environmental movement. ... Essays on Native American ...

The environmental movement spans science, society, and politics. Environmentalists have been mocked, imprisoned, and even killed. Women constitute about half of the global community, and their contributions to growth cannot be ignored. 90% of third-world women rely on the land for their livelihood.

April 15, 2014. This timeline of key moments in environmental history and the environmental movement is adapted from Tom Turner's chronology for American Earth, an anthology edited by Bill ...

Here we develop a dynamic modelling approach for infectious diseases that explicitly models both connectivity via human movement and environmental suitability interactions. We apply it to better ...

Abstract. The study of environmental movements has become one of the important discourses in academics and it has a number of aspects. This article investigates the determinant factors of success and failure of environmental movements in India based on a comparative analysis of the colonial regime, postindependence regime, and the more recent ...

Drawing primarily on reviews of the social science literature on risk, capitalism, and environmental politics, as well as discourse analysis and in-depth interviews with key anti-fossil fuel movement actors, the thesis aims to explore how anti-pipeline claims problematize capitalist solutions to contemporary environmental problems.

The grassroots environmental justice movement started in the United States in the 1970s, when indigenous people and local communities of different racial backgrounds and of poorer socio-economic status (a majority of them women) sounded the alarm over the impact of environmental degradation on their communities.

environmental movements in India. Among these movements, the most. prominent movements are the Chipko movement, the Appiko move-. ment, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada) movement, and. the ...

The authors of the USA and the UK have also published many highly cited papers. Australia, China, and India in the Asia-Pacific region have also shown interest in ESG, with more than 35 publications each. However, China and India struggle to produce high-quality ESG research papers. Figure 5 presents an overview of the cross-country co ...

Citation: How 'Dune' became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement, and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology (2024, March 17) ...

With its industrial past and expanses of natural resources, the Greater Philadelphia region teemed with activity during the environmental movement of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the years following World War II, people across the United States began to demand new measures to assure their health and safety.