A Database for the Sequencing of Environmental Movements

埃里克·约翰逊华盛顿州立大学这个项目将建立一系列关于英国、爱尔兰、加拿大和澳大利亚国家环境组织的长期数据库。每个国家数据库将包含各环保组织的信息(1)人口统计（如成立日期、成员、人员编制），(2)成员结构，(3)活动，(4)具体的环境问题。数据收集的目的是确保以尽可能灵活的方式收集可靠的数据，以便促进各种潜在最终用户的未来工作，包括学者、学生以及对与环境和能源可持续性、自然资源、健康、环境正义或野生动物有关的营利、非营利和公共政策领域感兴趣或从事这些领域工作的人。数据库建设的智力价值集中在开发替代社会运动/利益群体排序模型的测试。人们通常想当然地认为，在跨国组织基础结构出现之前，社会运动/利益集团首先在当地发展，然后在全国发展。相比之下，对全球化进程感兴趣的学者提出了一种自上而下的模型，其中全球文化对国家内部的各种进程具有强烈的影响，包括国内利益集团和国家公共政策的发展。建立一系列关于环境组织的国家数据库有助于建立研究和教育的基础设施，从而产生更广泛的影响。例如，这里收集的数据将有助于跨国审查环境运动本身以及这些运动对国家公共政策的影响。研究紧密地与一个高层次的研究“顶点”课程由PI教授，并围绕数据汇编组织。通过大量本科生研究助理参与数据收集，推进教学、培训和学习。

SES-0921942Erik JohnsonWashington State UniversityThis project will create a series of over time databases on national environmental organizations in Britain, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Each national database will contain information on individual environmental organizations' (1) demographics (e.g. founding date, membership, staffing levels), (2) membership structure, (3) activities, and (4) specific issues of environmental concern. Data collection is designed to ensure the assembly of reliable data in the most flexible manner possible, in order to facilitate future work by a wide variety of potential end-users including scholars, students, and those interested or working in for-profit, non-profit and public policy realms related to environmental and energy sustainability, natural resources, health, environmental justice, or wildlife.The intellectual merit of database construction centers on developing a test of alternative social movement/interest group sequencing models. It is generally taken-for-granted that social movements/interest groups first develop locally and then nationally before transnational organizational infrastructures emerge. In contrast, scholars interested in globalization processes suggest a top-down model, where global culture has strong implications for a variety of processes within nations, including the development of domestic interest groups and national public policies.The creation of a series of national databases on environmental organizations has broader impacts by contributing to infrastructures for research and education. Data assembled here will, for example, facilitate cross-national examination of environmental movements themselves and these movements' effects on national public policy. Research is tightly integrated with an upper-level research "capstone" course taught by the PI and organized around data assembly. Teaching, training and learning are advanced through participation of a large number of undergraduate research assistants in data collection.