Environmental Politics in Poland

By Barbara Hicks

This text examines the development of the Polish environmental movement as a lens through which to understand the reconstruction of civil society and the adaptation of a social movement to new political institutions. The book focuses on the period between Solidarity's formation in 1980 and the first years after the establishment of a Solidarity-led government in 1989. It argues that environmental groups, as a form of independent collective action aimed at changing official policies and institutions, were part of the larger social transformations that undermined communist rule.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231105401
• ISBN13: 9780231105408
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher