Scaling Greenpeace: From Local Activism to Global Governance

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Scaling Greenpeace: From Local Activism to Global Governance

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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 throughou...

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Date created

2017

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Zelko, Frank

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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Library Cologne

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https://www.europeana.eu/item/2048425/item_KQ63OK7DAERCQXL4UY5ALHQJC7UU4UAD

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Sociology & anthropology / Ecology / Political science / scaling activism; world civic politics / Ecology, Environment / Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture / Organizational Sociology / global governance / Greenpeace / organizational development / environmental protection organization / political influence / historical development / multilateralism / Journal article

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