AW: environmental crisis as motivation for action

[Axel Volkery]

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Dear Ken,   the European Environment Agency has published an interesting report on this issue three years ago. It is called “Late Lessons from early warnings” and contains a number of case studies where information and warnings about environmental problems were available at an early point of time, but action was delayed. You find the report at the website of the agency in the reports section: http://www.eea.eu.int Best regards Axel     _________________________ Axel Volkery   Research Fellow Coordinator Working Group "Strategies in Environmental Policy" Environmental Policy Research Centre Freie Universität Berlin Ihnestr. 22 D - 14195 Berlin Telephone: +49 30 - 838 56 688 Fax: +49 30 - 838 56 685 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Url: http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu     -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: owne[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Kenneth Wilkening Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 01:19 An: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Betreff: environmental crisis as motivation for action   Dear Ged-eders,   Can anyone point me to references on -- and here I don't know exactly how to term the topic -- the idea that people don't react to environmental problems until they see disaster (or BIG consequences) staring them in the face? In other words, literature on the notion that it takes a crisis to make people / policymakers seriously act to address a problem. I am interested in general readings, or specific case studies. What would be especially fascinating is cases where a problem existed and was well known and acknowledged, but was not acted upon until "things got out of hand." I would like to include a few such readings in a course I will be teaching this fall.   Thanks, Ken Wilkening International Studies Program University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) 3333 University Way Prince George, BC  V2N 4Z9 CANADA Tel: 250-960-5768 Fax: 250-960-5545