Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany : : Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond / / William T. Markham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Markham, William T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in German History ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

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. Previous analyses of environmental organizations have almost invariably viewed them as parts of larger social structures, that is, as components of social movements, as interest groups within a political system, or as contributors to civil society. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 3 THE ORIGINS OF NATURE PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS IN GERMANY Conservative Reactionaries, Protectors of Nature, and Social Democracy at the Beginning of the Century -- Chapter 4 NAZISM, THE WAR, AND ITS AFTERMATH The Causes and Consequences of Right-Wing Ecology -- Chapter 5 CONFRONTATION AND COUNTERCULTURE Ecology from the Left in a Turbulent Era -- Chapter 6 NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EASTERN-STYLE Environmental Organizations in the German Democratic Republic -- Chapter 7 NEW CHALLENGES AT CENTURY’S END -- Chapter 8 THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CENTURY -- Chapter 9 MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN GERMANY Four Profiles -- Chapter 10 DILEMMAS OF INTERNAL STRUCTURE Professionalization and Centralization -- Chapter 11 DILEMMAS OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION The Perils of Fundraising -- Chapter 12 DILEMMAS OF GOALS AND STRATEGIES Confrontation, Cooperation, and Competition -- Chapter 13 CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX