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

派和共同派J·克雷格·詹金斯，俄亥俄州立大学罗伯特·J·布鲁尔，德雷克塞尔大学标题：保护环境：环境运动重要吗？SES-0819412摘要本研究项目将考察环境运动S潜力的实现程度。美国环保运动兴起于19世纪最后25年，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。随着环境退化程度的加剧，特别是以全球变暖的形式，环境运动的作用变得越来越重要。根据社会运动理论，环境运动是提高我们社会处理环境问题的适应能力的核心。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动员？2)环境运动如何与政府、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策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100年的时间里收集和分析以下领域的七项新措施：(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)执行努力；(6)反运动和商业政治行动；以及(7)环境质量状况。这个项目？S的核心科学功绩是它对政策变化动力的贡献。这项研究探讨了环境运动在环境政策制定、执行以及最终对实际环境问题的影响方面是否重要。因此，该项目通过提供对多种流动结果的系统分析，包括所涉及的客观环境结果，对社会流动研究作出了贡献。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。该项目还解决了政府政策制定者在环境领域的更广泛关切，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。这三个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。通过阐明导致成功环境政策决策的社会和政治互动，这项研究可以更好地为促进创建生态可持续社会所必需的制度变革过程提供信息。

PI and Co-PI J. Craig Jenkins, Ohio State UniversityRobert J. Brulle, Drexel UniversityTitle: Protecting the Environment: Does the Environmental Movement Matter? SES - 0819412 ABSTRACTThis 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.