Politics and the Environment Book

	Acknowledgements
	Tables
	Abbreviations
	Introduction and overview	1
1	Interpretations	10
	Values and the novelty of contemporary social movements	13
	Materialism versus postmaterialism?	15
	A dominant versus an environmental paradigm?	20
	The ordinariness of new social movements	24
	Resource mobilisation theory	26
	Critique	29
	Claims about novelty	31
	Identity-oriented accounts	33
	Policy, strategy, issues and political styles	37
	Adaptation and transformation	41
2	The origins of environmentalism	45
	Aboriginal settlement	47
	White settlement	49
	Ideas about the conquest of nature	50
	Dominion over nature in practice	54
	Market forces	56
	Perspectives on preservation	58
	Recreation, health and social control	60
	Art, politics and nature	63
	Organised campaigns	65
	Diverse origins	66
3	Competing ideas, practical politics and public relations strategies	70
	Competing ideas	72
	Practical politics	85
	The developers	85
	The environmentalists	92
	Public relations strategies	97
	Business groups	97
	The environmentalists	99
4	Transforming institutions	103
	Anticipating a great transformation	105
	Pressures for institutional change: the role of the elites	105
	Early attempts at institutional change	107
	The popularity of environmentalism: the Franklin Dam and state rights	113
	A great transformation	117
	Controlling the agenda	119
	The control of ideas: shaping the arguments	119
	The mediation of interests: creating new institutional mechanisms	123
	The Resource Assessment Commission	124
	The Department of Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories	126
	ESD working groups	128
	Creating new coalitions: the National Soil Conservation Strategy	134
	Adaptation and transformation	137
5	Environmental awareness and public opinion	139
	Popular support for environmentalism	139
	The notion of public opinion	140
	Concern about the environment	142
	Support for environmental groups	148
	Socioeconomic bases of support for environmentalism	153
	Social location as a predictor of attitudes to the environment	164
	Consistency of attitudes	170
6	Reshaping the political regime	173
	Changing electoral bases: trends towards dealignment?	173
	New social movements and new politics parties	178
	The major parties	184
	The ALP: from the politics of prevarication to the politics of integration	186
	Articulating changing perceptions: party platforms	187
	Representing new interests: changes in policy	189
	Environmentalism and party support	196
7	Conclusion	204
	Notes	210
	Bibliography	214
	Index	226