Unique Environmentalism A Comparative Perspective /

• Main Authors: Grendstad, Gunnar (Author), Selle, Per (Author), Strømsnes, Kristin (Author), Bortne, Øystein (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; Environment.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Political Science.; Environment, general.

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 environ...

Table of 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?.