H2020Индивидуална стипендия2019–2021

PmNC · Policy-making of early nature conservation. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom compared, 1930-1960

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-09-01 → 2021-10-02
Финансиране от ЕС: 175 572 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-CAR

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Накратко на български

Политическите процеси по опазване на природата в Нидерландия и Великобритания между 1930 и 1960 г. се анализират чрез работата на държавни органи и неправителствени организации. Анализът помага на съвременните екоактивисти да разберат как се постигат цели в трудни политически условия.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Policy-making of early nature conservation. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom compared, 1930-1960

The project reviews the political aspects of early nature conservation in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, between 1930 and 1960. Contrary to the time after the emergence of a ‘modern environmental consciousness’ since the 1960s, nature conservation was not a prominent concern in public opinion or a relevant political issue. The research project looked into the actions of six groups in two democratic states in Western Europe: the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. For each country, a civil society organisation, a state agency, and a scientific society were analysed. Furthermore, the project looked into a number of exemplary local and regional case studies. How did these organisations try to achieve their goals and exert influence bottom-up on the political level, when nature conservation was obviously not on people’s minds? The period 1930-1960 was after all an era of economic crisis, mass unemployment and reconstruction – besides, there was a war and (in the Netherlands) a foreign occupation going on. How did nature conservation organisations manage to reach some of their objectives against the odds, in these difficult circumstances? Which lessons could present-day environmentalist groups or climate activists draw from these historical experiences? The research results point at a marked difference in processes of governance and policy-making between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In the Netherlands, conservationist organisations opted for a strategy of working through informal deals, advisory committees, and negotiated agreements with government departments and state agencies, rather than pressing for official legislation. In the United Kingdom, civil society actors continued to urge for such legislation, but internal disagreement about the correct definitions and administrative arrangements for national parks and nature reserves complicated a successful implementation of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act after 1949. The policy-making habits, strategies, and consultation structures in the different countries were decisive factors for the action repertoire of environmental groups after the 1970s.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Whereas comparative analyses of the history of nature conservation usually review either the inter-war period or the 1970s, this research action considers the period between 1930 and 1960 as an era in its own right. These decades are of particular interest for the development of ecological ideas and the establishment of long-term institutional arrangements between politics, science, and civil society concerning nature conservation. Another prominent aspect for this comparative analysis is the influence of right extremist political positions. The understanding of conservationist policies as the result of a process of political agenda-setting, discursive backgrounds, and active involvement of experts and civil society organisations, was a successful basis of analysis for the last decades of the 20th century. Here, this approach will be applied to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in the ‘missing’ decades between 1930 and 1960. For each country, a civil society organisation, a state agency and a scientific society and their respective roles in the political agenda-setting process will be scrutinised. The purpose of the project is to identify political and discursive continuities in the policy-making process of early nature conservation. The comparative design of the project, its focus on European countries beyond Germany, and its emphasis on institutional continuity through the Second World War will be important assets for the scientific debate about the early conservationist movement and the reconciliation of ‘green’ politics with its ‘brown’ past.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NijmegenКоординаторНидерландия