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The Growth of the Environment as a Political Issue in Britain

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  • Brookes, S. K.
  • Jordan, A. G.
  • Kimber, R. H.
  • Richardson, J. J.

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Various commentators have expressed their subjective impressions that ‘the environment’ emerged suddenly as a political issue. That the number of groups, journals and books relating to ‘the environment’ has dramatically increased is indisputable. What is not clear, however, is whether the increase has been in the awareness of relationships between problems which could then be subsumed under the general heading ‘the environment’ or whether increased attention has been paid to the component problems. It is possible that the interest in issues such as water pollution, resource conservation and air pollution was of long standing and that the only change was a growing popularization of the label ‘environmental’ by those who wrote about the subject in the press. The object of this study is to test the latter hypothesis by means of a content analysis of The Times.

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  • Brookes, S. K. & Jordan, A. G. & Kimber, R. H. & Richardson, J. J., 1976. "The Growth of the Environment as a Political Issue in Britain," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 245-255, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:6:y:1976:i:02:p:245-255_00
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    1. Fietkau, Hans-Joachim, 1984. "Bedingungen ökologischen Handelns: gesellschaftliche Aufgaben der Umweltpsychologie," EconStor Books, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 112252.
    2. Jan-Henrik Meyer, 2011. "Appropriating the Environment. How the European Institutions Received the Novel Idea of the Environment and Made it Their Own," KFG Working Papers p0031, Free University Berlin.

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