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Author Markham, William T., 1946- author.

Title Environmental organizations in modern Germany : hardy survivors in the twentieth century and beyond / William T. Markham
Published New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (407 pages)
Series Monographs in German history ; v. 21
Monographs in German history ; v. 21.
Contents Introduction -- Environmental organizations : theoretical considerations -- The origins of nature protection organizations in Germany : conservative reactionaries, protectors of nature, and social democracy at the beginning of the century -- Nazism, the war, and its aftermath : the causes and consequences of right-wing ecology -- Confrontation and counterculture : ecology from the left in a turbulent era -- Nature and environmental protection eastern-style : environmental organizations in the German Democratic Republic -- New challenges at century's end -- The social context of environmental organizations at the beginning of a new century -- Major environmental organizations in Germany : four profiles -- Dilemmas of internal structure : professionalization and centralization -- Dilemmas of resource acquisition : the perils of fundraising -- Dilemmas of goals and strategies : confrontation, cooperation, and competition -- Concluding observations
Summary "German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating and sometimes dramatic story of these organizations from their origins at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, not only describing how they reacted to powerful social movements, including the homeland protection and socialist movements in the early years of the twentieth century, the Nazi movement, and the anti-nuclear and new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s, but also examining strategies for survival in periods like the current one, when environmental concerns are not at the top of the national agenda." "This book, by contrast, starts from the premise that through the use of theories developed specifically to analyze the behavior of organizations and NGOs we can gain additional insight into why environmental organizations behave as they do."--Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-395) and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2022)
Subject Environmental protection -- Germany -- History -- Societies, etc
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmental protection -- Societies, etc.
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008017885
ISBN 9780857450302
0857450301