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Mark Lubell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • collective action Environmental Activism and air quality policy
    Political Research Quarterly, 2006
    Co-Authors: Mark Lubell, Arnold Vedlitz, Sammy Zahran, Letitia T Alston
    Abstract:

    This article attempts to respond to Ostrom’s call for a behavioral model of collective action by generalizing the collective interest model of mass political action to explain citizen policy support and personal behavioral intentions in the context of air quality policy. The collective action problems inherent in air quality policy provide a critical research setting for testing hypotheses of the collective interest model. Key elements of the collective interest model—perceived risk, trust in policy elites, knowledge of the policy problem, and efficacy—are found to be directly, and positively, related to support of government policies and intentions to engage in personal behaviors that might improve air quality. The article discusses the implications for using the collective interest model as general behavioral theory of collective action.

  • Environmental Activism as collective action
    Environment and Behavior, 2002
    Co-Authors: Mark Lubell
    Abstract:

    The literature on Environmental Activism has failed to produce a model of individual decision making explicitly linked to the logic of collective action. To remedy this problem, this article adapts the collective interest model developed by Finkel, Muller, and Opp to explain protest behavior and argues Environmental Activism is a function of citizen beliefs about collective benefits, the ability to influence collective outcomes, and the selective costs/benefits of participation. The author tests the hypotheses of the collective interest model using data from a survey of 460 residents of a coastal watershed and national data on 1,606 respondents from the 1993 General Social Survey Environment Battery. The author’s findings corroborate several central propositions of the collective interest model and provide a theoretical account of Environmental Activism that synthesizes many previous results.

Rik Scarce - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • eco warriors understanding the radical Environmental movement
    Environmental Values, 2006
    Co-Authors: Rik Scarce
    Abstract:

    PrefacePART ONE: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING1: Gandhi Meets the Luddites2: A Question of Compromise3: Ecology Meets PhilosophyPART TWO: WHO WOULD DARE?4: Greenpeace: Bridge To Radicalism5: Earth First!: Cracking The Mold6: The Sea Shepherds: Bringing Justice to the High Seas7: Animal Liberation: From Labs to Hunt Sabs8: Radical Environmentalism's International FacePART THREE: Environmental Activism IN PRACTICE 9: Hanging George Washington's Bib10: Not Just Tree Huggers Anymore11: Raid on Reykjavik 12: Crowd on a Crane13: On the Warpath with Anna, Mel, and Lib14: In the Wild with ""The Town Crier of the Global Village""PART FOUR: INSPIRATION AND THE FUTURE15: Stirring the Pot: Radical Environmental Literature, Music, Art and Theater16: Conclusion: Of Change and ConstancyGETTING INVOLVEDNOTESINDEXABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frederick H. Buttel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Environmental sociology and the explanation of Environmental reform
    Organization & Environment, 2003
    Co-Authors: Frederick H. Buttel
    Abstract:

    This article makes the case that Environmental sociology is in the midst of a significant shift of problematics, from the explanation of Environmental degradation to the explanation of Environmental reform. In this article, the author suggests that there are four basic mechanisms of Environmental reform or improvement: Environmental Activism/movements, state Environmental regulation, ecological modernization, and international Environmental governance. He suggests further that although `green consumerism' is one of the most frequently discussed mechanisms of Environmental improvement within Environmental sociology and in movement discourse, green consumerist arguments generally tend to rest on one or more of the other four mechanisms of Environmental reform. One of the main tasks of Environmental sociology will be to assess which of these four mechanisms is the most fundamental to Environmental reform. The author concludes with the hypothesis that Environmental movements and Activism are ultimately the mo...

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Cooper Nina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cumulative Impact: Digital Ethnography of Environmental Activism in the Mountain View Community
    UNM Digital Repository, 2016
    Co-Authors: Cooper Nina
    Abstract:

    While digital ethnography is a growing genre in communication, there is a salient need to fill the gaps of knowledge concerning health communication using a digital format. Digital ethnography holds the potential of reaching larger audiences, incorporating more stakeholders, and adding previously muted voices – individuals from non-academic communities as well as communities of color – to health research dialectics. With limited use of this tool in the field of health communication, there remain untapped opportunities for intra-disciplinary work within the communication field (e.g., ethnography, performance ethnography, critical ethnography) and beyond. By combining ethnography and community-based participatory research as theoretical frameworks and digital ethnography as an approach, seminal opportunities may be discovered in understanding the role of Environmental discourse in human behavior, promoting higher levels of community participation, engaging those who are most greatly impacted by Environmental issues, and fostering positive social change. The purpose of this study is three-fold: (1) to document on-going efforts of Mountain View community leaders and residents to survive, cope with, and remediate Environmental damage resulting from the hazard waste siting in their area of 33 out of 35 EPA sites; (2) to explore lives, unique culture, and continuing Activism of Mountain View residents, as they seek to construct a reality that transcends their being targeted as a dumping ground for Environmental pollutants; and (3) to encourage social action by offering ways in which people can not only procure knowledge and empowerment regarding Environmental threats, but also pursue practical responses to alleviate them. The Mountain View neighborhood has long battled against Environmental injustice. While the EPA Office of Justice (2015) suggests that no group of people should bear disproportionate shares of Environmental threats and promotes Environmental justice through the fair treatment and meaning involvement of all people groups, Mountain View is one New Mexican community where residents continue to experience unequal protection against Environmental hazards. This Cumulative Impact Project focuses upon on the 35-year period of Mountain View history beginning in the early 1980’s when community organizing efforts became increasingly galvanized. When a community infant was poisoned and hospitalized with “blue baby syndrome,” a medical condition that causes an infant’s hands, feet, nails, and skin to become bluish as a result of the blood’s reduced ability to carry oxygen, community residents were in an uproar over the threat of potential suffocation of the area’s most vulnerable citizens

  • Cumulative Impact: Digital Ethnography of Environmental Activism in the Mountain View Community
    2016
    Co-Authors: Cooper Nina
    Abstract:

    While digital ethnography is a growing genre in communication, there is a salient need to fill the gaps of knowledge concerning health communication using a digital format. Digital ethnography holds the potential of reaching larger audiences, incorporating more stakeholders, and adding previously muted voices – individuals from non-academic communities as well as communities of color – to health research dialectics. With limited use of this tool in the field of health communication, there remain untapped opportunities for intra-disciplinary work within the communication field (e.g., ethnography, performance ethnography, critical ethnography) and beyond. By combining ethnography and community-based participatory research as theoretical frameworks and digital ethnography as an approach, seminal opportunities may be discovered in understanding the role of Environmental discourse in human behavior, promoting higher levels of community participation, engaging those who are most greatly impacted by Environmental issues, and fostering positive social change. The purpose of this study is three-fold: (1) to document on-going efforts of Mountain View community leaders and residents to survive, cope with, and remediate Environmental damage resulting from the hazard waste siting in their area of 33 out of 35 EPA sites; (2) to explore lives, unique culture, and continuing Activism of Mountain View residents, as they seek to construct a reality that transcends their being targeted as a dumping ground for Environmental pollutants; and (3) to encourage social action by offering ways in which people can not only procure knowledge and empowerment regarding Environmental threats, but also pursue practical responses to alleviate them. The Mountain View neighborhood has long battled against Environmental injustice. While the EPA Office of Justice (2015) suggests that no group of people should bear disproportionate shares of Environmental threats and promotes Environmental justice through the fair treatment and meaning involvement of all people groups, Mountain View is one New Mexican community where residents continue to experience unequal protection against Environmental hazards. This Cumulative Impact Project focuses upon on the 35-year period of Mountain View history beginning in the early 1980’s when community organizing efforts became increasingly galvanized. When a community infant was poisoned and hospitalized with “blue baby syndrome,” a medical condition that causes an infant’s hands, feet, nails, and skin to become bluish as a result of the blood’s reduced ability to carry oxygen, community residents were in an uproar over the threat of potential suffocation of the area’s most vulnerable citizens.Communication & JournalismMastersUniversity of New Mexico. Dept. of Communication and JournalismWhite, JudithAvila, MagdalenaDeMaria, Jaely