Civil Society and the Environment

公民社会与环境：1900 - 2000年美国环境运动的动员组成公民社会的自愿协会在维护民主、民主的合法性和民主的稳定性方面发挥着重要作用。通过他们的公民协会，公民发展和维持他们的道德生活，并通过形成社会运动行使他们的公民权利。这为社会提供了一种自我反思的能力，以更新社会制度并适应不断变化的环境。社会运动解决的主要领域之一是人与自然环境的关系。本项目通过解决以下问题，考察了整个20世纪美国环境运动的发展和变化：-导致环境运动规模和行动变化的主要社会和政治因素是什么？-基金会资助如何影响环保运动的行动和结构？-环保运动与反环保运动的互动本质是什么？为了研究这些问题，将收集1900-2000年期间的数据，包括环保组织和反环保组织的成立和解散，这些组织的结构和行动，关于自然的文化信仰的变化，以及对这一运动的关键政治和经济影响的性质。这些数据将使用案例研究方法、多元回归、事件历史和网络分析的组合进行检查。该项目将面向对社会运动理论感兴趣的学术研究人员以及更广泛的慈善和环境社区。分析结果将通过项目网站公布。通过传播这项研究的结果，旨在促进环境运动和慈善界对其行动的反思性审查，从而有助于创建一个环境可持续发展的社会。

Civil Society and the Environment: The Mobilization of the U.S. Environmental Movement, 1900 - 2000 The voluntary associations that make up civil society play an important role in the maintenance, legitimacy, and stability of democracy. Through their civic associations, citizens develop and maintain their ethical life and exercise their citizenship through the formation of social movements. This provides society with a self-reflexive capacity to renew social institutions and adapt to changing circumstances. One of the major areas addressed by social movements is the human relationship with the natural environment. This project examines the growth and change of the U.S. environmental movement throughout the 20th century by addressing the following questions:- What are the major social and political factors that contribute to changes in the size and actions of the environmental movement?- How does foundation funding impact the actions and structure of the environmental movement?- What is the nature of the interaction between the environmental movement and the anti-environmental movement?To examine these questions, data will be collected for the time frame from 1900-2000, including the founding and disbanding of both environmentalist and anti-environmentalist organizations, the structure and actions of these organizations, changes in cultural beliefs about nature, and the nature of key political and economic influences on this movement. These data will be examined using a combination of case study methodology, multiple regression, event history, and network analysis. This project will address both academic researchers interested in social movement theory and the broader philanthropic and environmental communities. The results of the analysis will be made available through a project website. Through the dissemination of the results of this research seeks to foster a reflexive examination within the environmental movement and philanthropic community regarding its actions and thereby contribute to the creation of an environmentally sustainable society.