Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-250).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-221).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 275-288).

Thesis (M.A.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2005. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Susan Kollin. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-107).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2010. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 187 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-187).

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [61]-64).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Nottingham Trent University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.

There can be no doubt that population increase and environmental pollution are the world's biggest problems today. These pose serious threats to the quality of life and art. They can only be remedied by an efficient system of birth-control and sound compulsory education, in order to regain spiritual enlightenment. Intro. p. 1.

This thesis examines four communities in the Lower Fraser Basin (Burnaby, Richmond, Langley and Abbotsford), as a case study for examining the "ecology of environmentalism". I have compared two "low environmentalism" communities (Richmond and Abbotsford), and two which have a significantly larger field of environmental groups (Burnaby and Langley). The research included 43 interviews (37 with leaders of grassroots environmental groups and a mailout questionnaire which was sent to one leader of each of the 71 groups in the four municipalities (64% response rate). Together this research amounts to 82% coverage of all the environmental groups in the four municipalities. Using this data, I argue that the differences between the municipal areas are not very well explained either in terms of the themes in Resource Mobilisation Theory, in either of the major theories of social movements and the State, or in terms of standard demographic variables associated with environmentalism (community size, gender, income, education, ethnicity, or occupation). I have therefore used the themes of "civil society" and "public spheres" (Allario 1995; Calhoun 1996; Cohen and Arato; Fraser 1992; Habermas 1989; Walzer 1991) to compare the four municipalities. I suggest that the more holistic approach especially as proposed by Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato (1992), provides a better way of analyzing both the actions and the ecology of environmental groups in the Lower Fraser Basin. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

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