The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe

What is behind the greening of European politics, and what is the future of the green movement? This book examines environmental interest groups at the vanguard of the green movement in Western Europe—from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to national bird societies and conservation groups—in order to answer these questions.

Russell J. Dalton chronicles the evolution of environmental interest groups from their first mobilization wave in the late 1800s to the present. Drawing on interviews ...