Twenty years of environmental mobilization: Trends among national environmental organizations

American Environmentalism: The US Environmental Movement, 1970-1990

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 11-26

  Mitchell, Robert Cameron ^a   Mertig, Angela G ^b   Dunlap, Riley E ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct mail recruitment; Environmental lobby; Environmental movement; Environmental organizations; Lobbying; Public interest groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079914448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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