Description du projet
La naissance de la politique de protection de la nature
La période entre 1930 et 1960 est importante en ce qui concerne le développement des idées écologiques, ainsi que la mise en place d’accords de protection de la nature entre la politique, la science et la société civile. Un autre aspect est l’influence des positions politiques d’extrême droite. Dans ce contexte, le projet PmNC, financé par l’UE, étudiera les politiques conservationnistes au cours de cette période, en se concentrant sur les Pays‑Bas et le Royaume‑Uni. Pour chaque pays, le projet étudiera une organisation de la société civile, une agence d’État et une société scientifique, ainsi que leurs rôles respectifs dans le processus de définition de l’agenda politique. Les résultats mettront en lumière les continuités politiques et discursives dans le processus d’élaboration des politiques de conservation de la nature à ses débuts.
Objectif
Whereas comparative analyses of the history of nature conservation usually review either the inter-war period or the 1970s, this research action considers the period between 1930 and 1960 as an era in its own right. These decades are of particular interest for the development of ecological ideas and the establishment of long-term institutional arrangements between politics, science, and civil society concerning nature conservation. Another prominent aspect for this comparative analysis is the influence of right extremist political positions.
The understanding of conservationist policies as the result of a process of political agenda-setting, discursive backgrounds, and active involvement of experts and civil society organisations, was a successful basis of analysis for the last decades of the 20th century. Here, this approach will be applied to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in the ‘missing’ decades between 1930 and 1960. For each country, a civil society organisation, a state agency and a scientific society and their respective roles in the political agenda-setting process will be scrutinised. The purpose of the project is to identify political and discursive continuities in the policy-making process of early nature conservation. The comparative design of the project, its focus on European countries beyond Germany, and its emphasis on institutional continuity through the Second World War will be important assets for the scientific debate about the early conservationist movement and the reconciliation of ‘green’ politics with its ‘brown’ past.
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MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panelCoordinateur
6525 XZ Nijmegen
Pays-Bas