Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Environmental movements from the local to the global
• Organizational change in western
• European environmental groups
• A framework for analysis
• Dialectics of institutionalization
• The transformation of the environmental movement in Germany
• The German Environmental Movement at a crossroads
• Mobilizing Earth first! in Britain
• Local activism, national organizations and the environmental movement in the United States
• Networks and mobile arrangements
• Organizational innovation in the US Environmental Justice Movement
• Consolidation through institutionalization?
• Dilemmas of the Spanish Environmental Movement in the 1990s
• Sustaining local environmental mobilizations
• Groups, actions and claims in southern Europe
• Environmental movements
• Ecological modernization and political opportunity structures
• Power, politics and environmental movements in the Third World
• GOs and the global environment facility
• The World Trade Organization
• Social movements and global environmental management
• Acting globally, thinking locally?
• Prospects for a global environmental movement
• Christopher Rootes

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CHOICE Review

This collection comprises a miscellaneous set of analyses of environmental movements worldwide. Articles look at different aspects of movements in the US, the various European countries, the Third World, and the international arena. Some of the studies focus on the growing institutionalization of environmentalism in particular countries, while others inquire into the global dimension of environmental activism. Taken as a whole, the collection is of high quality and would be of great interest to anyone doing research on international developments in the environmental field. On the other hand, the book would probably not be of interest to the general reader, nor to anyone unfamiliar with the environmental issues it addresses. Environmental Movements is accordingly recommended principally for those libraries that seek to develop extensive holdings in this area of scholarship. J. Stauder; University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth