Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Defining an environmental movement -- 2. Different approaches to the study of environmental movements -- 3. Origins of the Czech environmental movement : from conservation to political opposition -- 4. The development of the Czech environmental movement, 1990-2000 -- 5. Case studies -- 6. The Czech environmental movement in 2003.

Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic offers a radical perspective on the democratisation process, revealing the extent to which the consolidation of a politically efficacious and diverse civil society is far more complex than the earlier generation of commentators acknowledged. The environmental movement has not flourished under political democracy; its radical activists have been marginalized and targeted by the state, their ideologies and strategies compromised and their critical voice silenced. Yet the book concludes that whilst the mainstream environmental movement has become institutionalised and appears incapable of representing community interests, the environmental issue retains the capacity to mobilise, this time against the neo-liberal agenda of the democratic government.