- The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
- About the Contributors
- Author Index
- General Index
- Introduction: The Field of Social Movement Studies
- Social Movements in Social Theory
- Social Movements in Political Science
- Historical Analysis and Social Movements Research
- Contentious Politics
- New Theoretical Directions from the Study of Gender and Sexuality Movements: Collective Identity, Multi-Institutional Politics, and Emotions
- Historical Dynamics of Capitalism and Labor Movements
- Migration and Social Movements
- Religious Revivalism and Social Movements
- Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Social Movements
- Urban Dynamics and Social Movements
- Demography and Social Movements
- Motivations to Action
- Networks as Constraints and Opportunities
- Rational Action
- Micromobilization and Emotions
- Demobilization and Disengagement in a Life Course Perspective
- Social Movements and Organizational Analysis
- Network Approaches and Social Movements
- Social Movement Coalitions
- Movements as Communities
- New Technologies and Social Movements
- Geography and Social Movements
- Communication in Movements
- Strategy
- Repertoires of Contention
- Riots
- Political Violence
- Social Mobilization and Violence in Civil War and their Social Legacies
- Civil Resistance
- Consumer Strategies in Social Movements
- Voluntary Actions and Social Movements
- Cultural Conflicts and Social Movements
- Narrative and Social Movements
- The Art of Social Movement
- Visuals in Social Movements
- Practice Movements: The Politics of Non-Sovereign Power
- Immanent Accounts: Ethnography, Engagement, and Social Movement Practices
- Contentious Collective Action and the Evolving Nation-State
- Social Movements and the Multilateral Arena
- “The Game’s Afoot”: Social Movements in Authoritarian States
- Repression: The Governance of Domestic Dissent
- Managing Protest: The Political Action Repertoires of Corporations
- Party Systems, Electoral Systems, and Social Movements
- Populism, Social Movements, and Popular Subjectivity
- Markets, Business, and Social Movements
- Democracy in Social Movements
- Welfare Changes and Social Movements
- The Impacts of Environmental Movements
- Is it Social Movements that Construct Human Rights?
- The Conditions for Civil Society Participation in International Decision Making
- Democratic Innovations
- Revolutions and Regime Change
Abstract and Keywords
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 are dependent on mass media coverage, the fluctuating salience of environmental issues, and political opportunities. EMs influence policy by deploying scientific knowledge, more successfully where they have special expertise. In international negotiations, EMs have acted as brokers between North and South to influence global environmental policies. In authoritarian states, EMs have enlarged scope for civil society and democratic participation.
Keywords: environmental policy formation, environmental policy implementation, agenda setting, scientific expertise, public opinion
Christopher Rootes is Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology; and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at University of Kent
Eugene Nulman is a PhD Candidate and Assistant Lecturer in the School of Socil Policy, Sociology, and Social Research at University of Kent
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- The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
- About the Contributors
- Author Index
- General Index
- Introduction: The Field of Social Movement Studies
- Social Movements in Social Theory
- Social Movements in Political Science
- Historical Analysis and Social Movements Research
- Contentious Politics
- New Theoretical Directions from the Study of Gender and Sexuality Movements: Collective Identity, Multi-Institutional Politics, and Emotions
- Historical Dynamics of Capitalism and Labor Movements
- Migration and Social Movements
- Religious Revivalism and Social Movements
- Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Social Movements
- Urban Dynamics and Social Movements
- Demography and Social Movements
- Motivations to Action
- Networks as Constraints and Opportunities
- Rational Action
- Micromobilization and Emotions
- Demobilization and Disengagement in a Life Course Perspective
- Social Movements and Organizational Analysis
- Network Approaches and Social Movements
- Social Movement Coalitions
- Movements as Communities
- New Technologies and Social Movements
- Geography and Social Movements
- Communication in Movements
- Strategy
- Repertoires of Contention
- Riots
- Political Violence
- Social Mobilization and Violence in Civil War and their Social Legacies
- Civil Resistance
- Consumer Strategies in Social Movements
- Voluntary Actions and Social Movements
- Cultural Conflicts and Social Movements
- Narrative and Social Movements
- The Art of Social Movement
- Visuals in Social Movements
- Practice Movements: The Politics of Non-Sovereign Power
- Immanent Accounts: Ethnography, Engagement, and Social Movement Practices
- Contentious Collective Action and the Evolving Nation-State
- Social Movements and the Multilateral Arena
- “The Game’s Afoot”: Social Movements in Authoritarian States
- Repression: The Governance of Domestic Dissent
- Managing Protest: The Political Action Repertoires of Corporations
- Party Systems, Electoral Systems, and Social Movements
- Populism, Social Movements, and Popular Subjectivity
- Markets, Business, and Social Movements
- Democracy in Social Movements
- Welfare Changes and Social Movements
- The Impacts of Environmental Movements
- Is it Social Movements that Construct Human Rights?
- The Conditions for Civil Society Participation in International Decision Making
- Democratic Innovations
- Revolutions and Regime Change
