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Unique Environmentalism : A Comparative Perspective /

By: Grendstad, Gunnar [author.].
Contributor(s): Selle, Per [author.] | Strømsnes, Kristin [author.] | Bortne, Øystein [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.Description: VII, 190 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387305257.Subject(s): Social sciences | Political science | Environment | Sociology | Social Sciences | Sociology, general | Political Science | Environment, generalDDC classification: 301 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Perspectives on Unique Environmentalism -- In Defense of Uniqueness -- The Two Anomalies -- The Organizational Setting: Early History and Later Developments -- The Environmentalists -- Who Are the Environmentalists? -- Environmentalists Without an Attitude -- Political and Environmental Behavior -- The Local Community Perspective in the State-Friendly Society -- The Local Community Perspective -- The State-Friendly Society -- Withering Uniqueness?.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of an inclusive and state friendly society and a strong orientation and commitment to local communities make the case stand apart from mainstream international definitions of environmentalism. The authors study a specific political culture with a rather unique combination of state structure and civil society of which organized environmentalism is an important part. The political culture influences organizational form and organizational ideology as well as the way these organistions are linked to and interact with the goverment. The study shows why international non-government organizations (INGOs) which are successful elsewhere, such as Greenpeace, are unable to establish themselves in some countries. The study compares Norwegian environmentalism with perspectives and findings from other political systems. More generally, this is also a study on the role of voluntary organizations and civil society in a specific type of democracy. The book throws light on why the working of the Norwegian political system – as well as the Scandinavian political systems more generally – is often misunderstood in the international literature.
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Perspectives on Unique Environmentalism -- In Defense of Uniqueness -- The Two Anomalies -- The Organizational Setting: Early History and Later Developments -- The Environmentalists -- Who Are the Environmentalists? -- Environmentalists Without an Attitude -- Political and Environmental Behavior -- The Local Community Perspective in the State-Friendly Society -- The Local Community Perspective -- The State-Friendly Society -- Withering Uniqueness?.

This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of an inclusive and state friendly society and a strong orientation and commitment to local communities make the case stand apart from mainstream international definitions of environmentalism. The authors study a specific political culture with a rather unique combination of state structure and civil society of which organized environmentalism is an important part. The political culture influences organizational form and organizational ideology as well as the way these organistions are linked to and interact with the goverment. The study shows why international non-government organizations (INGOs) which are successful elsewhere, such as Greenpeace, are unable to establish themselves in some countries. The study compares Norwegian environmentalism with perspectives and findings from other political systems. More generally, this is also a study on the role of voluntary organizations and civil society in a specific type of democracy. The book throws light on why the working of the Norwegian political system – as well as the Scandinavian political systems more generally – is often misunderstood in the international literature.

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