Environmental Mobilization in Europe and the United States : An Overview at the Start of the 20 Century

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This comparative analysis of discourse, actors, and mobilization practices explores the genesis of environmental defense movements in England, Continental Europe, and the United States. Faced with the Industrial Revolution and urbanization, and despite contradictory analyses, artists and scholars, amateur ecologists and leading experts, launched various forms of action and obtained the first legislative measures on environmental protection from their states, even before 1914.

This comparative analysis of discourse, actors, and mobilization practices explores the genesis of environmental defense movements in England, Continental Europe, and the United States. Faced with the Industrial Revolution and urbanization, and despite contradictory analyses, artists and scholars, amateur ecologists and leading experts, launched various forms of action and obtained the first legislative measures on environmental protection from their states, even before 1914.