TY - BOOK AU - Koppen,C.S.A.van AU - Markham,William T. ED - Edward Elgar Publishing. TI - Protecting nature: organizations and networks in Europe and the USA SN - 9781848440227 (e-book) AV - QH77.E9 P76 2007 U1 - 333.7206/04 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Cheltenham, Northampton, Mass. PB - Edward Elgar KW - Nature conservation KW - Europe KW - Societies, etc KW - Directories KW - United States KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Nature protection in nine countries : a framework for analysis / William T. Markham and C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen -- 2. Nature protection organizations in England / Christopher Rootes -- 3. Nature protection associations in France / Cécilia Claeys-Mekdade and Marie Jacqué -- 4. Nature protection in Germany : persistence and change in a turbulent century / William T. Markham -- 5. Nature protection organizations in Italy : from elitist fervour to confluence with environmentalism / Giorgio Osti -- 6. Dutch. nature protection between policy and public / C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen -- 7. Trees, ecology and biological diversity : Norwegian nature protection and environmentalism / Ørnulf Seippel -- 8. Nature protection NGOs in Poland : between tradition, professionalism and radicalism / Piotr Gli Ski and Ma Gorzata Koziarek -- 9. The historical and contemporary roles of nature protection organizations in Sweden / Magnus Boström -- 10. The 'nature' of environmentalism : nature protection in the USA / Angela G. Mertig -- 11. Nature protection in western environmentalism : a comparative analysis / C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen and William T. Markham N2 - Providing a detailed description of all the major nature protection organizations and networks, including overviews of their current membership, activities, and as far as available, budgets, Protecting Nature will be of great interest to lecturers and postgraduate students in social science fields, as well as researchers in the fields of environmental policy, environmental NGOs, social movements, civil society, nature management and policy. Members of nature protection, environmental and other civil society organizations who seek a better understanding of the historical development of nature protection organizations and networks, as well as the strategies employed by those organizations, will also find much to interest them in this book UR - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781845429706.xml ER -