This paper empirically measures changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around the issue of corporate environmentalism from 1960 to 1993, and correlates those changes with the evolving institutions adopted by the US chemical industry to interpret the issue. Four stages are identified, each representing a different field membership, interaction pattern and set of dominant...

The two essential claims of the environmentalists, which I take for granted are already well known, are (1) that continued economic progress is impossible because of the impending exhaustion of natural resources (it is from this notion that the slogan “reduce, reuse, recycle” comes), and (2) that continued economic progress, indeed, much of the economic progress that we have had up to now, is d...

Creation of national parks often imposes immediate livelihood costs on local people, and tensions between park managers and local people are common. Park managers have tried different approaches to managing relationships with local people, but nearly all include efforts to promote environmental values and behaviors. These efforts have had uneven results, and there is a need to improve our under...

The present study tested whether a greater level of emotional empathy in women mediates the commonly reported relationship between gender and environmental concern and action. In an undergraduate sample (N=202), it was found that gender differences existed in altruistic environmental concerns as well as in willingness to cooperate and compete for resources in a self-report commons dilemma. It w...

I ~ I U J J help ex-plain rising leilels qf support ,for environnzentul values in n ~ a n j ~ rural areus. In purricular, it ussesses cr tvorlel of "green t77igrarioi1" that a.s.sztn~es [hut doi~zestic in-migrution, i+lit/i its impacts on the character atzrl corliposirion of rural i.or?it?izinifirs, is one of the reasons ctii~irotzn~ei~tal v lues ma?, be gmiiiing .support in rural Anzerica. Res...

The article reviews some of the available literature, in English, Italian and Portuguese, on work/environment relationships in historical perspective. I discuss the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement as the one most promising for pushing both the research agenda and public policy towards a better understanding of the connections between work and the environment. At the same time, I argue for t...