A Database for the Sequencing of Environmental Movements

SES-0921942埃里克·约翰逊华盛顿州立大学该项目将创建一系列关于英国、爱尔兰、加拿大和澳大利亚国家环境组织的数据库。每个国家数据库都将包含关于各个环境组织的信息：（1）人口统计资料（如成立日期、成员、人员配备水平）;（2）成员结构;（3）活动;（4）环境关切的具体问题。数据收集的目的是确保以最灵活的方式收集可靠的数据，以促进各种潜在的最终用户未来的工作，包括学者，学生，以及那些有兴趣或从事与环境和能源可持续性，自然资源，健康，环境正义，数据库建设的智力价值集中在开发替代社会运动/利益集团排序模型的测试上。人们通常认为，社会运动/利益集团首先在当地发展，然后在全国范围内发展，然后才出现跨国组织基础设施。与此相反，对全球化进程感兴趣的学者提出了一种自上而下的模式，即全球文化对国家内部的各种进程有着强烈的影响，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对环境运动本身及其对国家公共政策的影响进行跨国审查。研究与PI教授的上层研究“顶点”课程紧密结合，并围绕数据组装进行组织。教学，培训和学习是先进的，通过大量的本科生研究助理参与数据收集。

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.