Collaborative Research Proposal: Protecting the Environment: Does the Environmental Movement Matter?

罗伯特·j·布鲁勒，德雷塞尔大学，题目：保护环境：环境运动重要吗？摘要本研究项目将考察环境运动在多大程度上？美国的潜力正在实现。兴起于19世纪最后25年的美国环境运动，在与环境有关的公共政策及其实施的辩论中一直是一个重要的声音。随着环境恶化的程度日益加剧，特别是以全球变暖的形式，环境运动的作用越来越重要。根据社会运动理论，环境运动对于提高社会应对环境问题的适应能力至关重要。研究人员将解决三个主要问题：1)环境问题如何刺激环境运动的动员？2)环保运动如何与政府、企业和更广泛的公众互动，以改变公共政策和商业惯例？3)由此产生的公共政策决定对自然环境的最终影响是什么？环境问题发展缓慢，难以扭转。因此，捕捉这些动态需要长期的纵向设计。调查人员计划在以下方面收集和分析100年期间的7项新措施：(1)环境运动行动；(2)对环境问题的文化关注；(3)政府政策制定；(4)政治机会；(5)实施力度；(6)反运动和商业政治行动；（七）环境质量状况。这个项目吗?美国的核心科学价值在于它对政策变化动态的贡献。该研究探讨了环境运动在环境政策的制定、实施以及最终对实际环境问题的影响方面是否重要。因此，该项目通过提供多种运动结果的系统分析，包括正在解决的客观环境结果，为社会运动研究做出了贡献。特别重要的是评估文化生产对运动动员的意义，并将其与组织变革和集体行动的分析结合起来。该项目还解决了环境领域政府决策者更广泛关注的问题，如美国全球变化科学计划、政府间气候变化专门委员会和国家研究委员会。这三家机构都呼吁对我们在解决环境问题方面进行创造性创新的社会能力进行研究。通过阐明导致成功的环境政策决定的社会和政治相互作用，本研究可以更好地为促进创建生态可持续社会所需的制度变革过程提供信息。

PI and Co-PI J. Craig Jenkins, Ohio State University Robert J. Brulle, Drexel University Title: Protecting the Environment: Does the Environmental Movement Matter? SES - 0819423 ABSTRACT This research project will examine the extent to which the environmental movement?s potential is being realized. Emerging during the last quarter of the 19th century, the U.S. environmental movement has been an important voice in debates over environmentally related public policy and its implementation. With rising levels of environmental degradation, especially in the form of global warming, the role of the environmental movement takes on increasing importance. According to social movement theory, the environmental movement is central to increasing the adaptive capacity of our society to deal with environmental problems. The researchers will address three major questions: 1) How have environmental problems stimulated environmental movement mobilization?, 2) how has the environmental movement interacted with government, business and the broader public to change public policy and business practices?, and 3) what was the ultimate impact of the resultant public policy decisions on the natural environment? Environmental problems are slow to develop and difficult to turn around. Thus capturing these dynamics requires a long-term longitudinal design. The investigators plan to collect and analyze seven new measures over a 100 year time period in the following areas: (1) environmental movement actions; (2) cultural attention to environmental issues; (3) governmental policy development; (4) political opportunity; (5) implementation efforts; (6) countermovement and business political actions; and (7) environmental quality conditions. This project?s core scientific merit is its contribution to policy change dynamics. The research addresses whether the environmental movement mattered in terms of environmental policy enactment, its implementation and finally its effects on actual environmental problems. Thus this project contributes to social movement research by providing a systematic analysis of multiple movement outcomes, including the objective environmental outcomes being addressed. Of special importance is evaluating the significance of cultural production on movement mobilization and bringing this to bear along with analysis of organization change and collective action. This project also addresses the broader concerns of government policy makers in the environmental field, such as the U.S. Global Change Science Program, the IPCC and the National Research Council. All three of these institutions have called for research on our societal capacity for creative innovation in addressing environmental problems. By illuminating the social and political interactions that led to successful environmental policy decisions, this research can better inform the process of institutional change necessary to facilitate the creation of an ecologically sustainable society.