Scaling Greenpeace: From Local Activism to Global Governance
Abstract: Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver in the early 1970s. Initially, it was a small anti-nuclear protest group composed of Americans and Canadians, peaceniks and hippies, World War II veterans and people barely out of high school. Twenty years later, it was the world’s largest environmental NGO, with headquarters in Amsterdam, branches in over forty nations, and a regular presence at international environmental meetings throughout the world. This article will chart Greenpeace’s growth throughout its first two decades, in the process examining how the organization became influential at several levels: in local politics in places like Vancouver; at the national level in countries such as Canada, New Zealand, the USA, and Germany; and at global forums such as the International Whaling Commission and various UN-sponsored environmental meetings. It will analyze the combination of activist agency and political op-portunity structures that enabled Greenpeace to gain political influence. I a
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Greenpeace skalieren: vom lokalen Aktivismus zur globalen Steuerung
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Scaling Greenpeace: From Local Activism to Global Governance ; volume:42 ; number:2 ; pages:318-342
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Historical social research ; 42, Heft 2, 318-342
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Politik
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10.12759/hsr.42.2017.2.318-342
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-51890-5
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 11:01 AM CEST
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