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The environmental movement in Australia is an enduring and influential social phenomenon comprising a myriad of organisations, groups, small cells and non-affiliated activists and sympathisers. Spawning green politicians on the federal and state level it remains influential after several decades, as new issues such as climate change emerge and established issues like the protection of old growth forests remain salient. Attempts have been made to link environmental concerns with the rise of new classes, the formation of new status groups, the ascendancy of postwar generations, postmaterial…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The environmental movement in Australia is an
enduring and influential social phenomenon comprising
a myriad of organisations, groups, small cells and
non-affiliated activists and sympathisers. Spawning
green politicians on the federal and state level it
remains influential after several decades, as new
issues such as climate change emerge and established
issues like the protection of old growth forests
remain salient.
Attempts have been made to link environmental
concerns with the rise of new classes, the formation
of new status groups, the ascendancy of postwar
generations, postmaterial value shifts and media
exposure of environmental hazards. Yet systematic,
empirical studies of environmentalism remain
relatively rare. In this book political sociologist
Bruce Tranter seeks to bridge this gap by critically
examining key sociological accounts of
environmentalism and systematically assessing their
efficacy. Drawing upon nationally representative
survey data, he considers the explanatory value of
major sociological accounts of politics when applied
to the most influential element of new politics ,
the environmental movement.
Autorenporträt
Bruce Tranter is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the
University of Tasmania, Australia. His research interests
include environmental social movements and their leaders,
postmaterial value change and national identity.