The Western European Environmental Movement From The Perspective Of Political Opportunity Structure Theory

As a kind of social political phenomenon,the new social movement is mainly to since the late 1960 s as the student movement in the western society and appear a series of size,the floorboard of the mass protest movement of different interests,mainly including ecological movement and peace movement,the women's movement,the gay movement,etc.Among them,the environmental movement is the most mature and the most lasting political influence of a typical new social movement type.After a long evolution,environmental movement in Western Europe has been developed from the original small-scale,low mobilization,weak organization of mass protests to upgrade to today's large,cross-regional,the institutionalization of the green movement,and more and more influence on European politics.Through the analysis of the political opportunity structure of the environmental movement in France and Germany,the environmental movement of the two countries can face different political opportunity structures,and their movement development trend is different.As a stronghold of movements for the environment,environmental movement of Western Europe from the produce has strong vitality,after more than half a century of evolution,now the increasing maturity of the environmental movement and institutionalization of Western Europe,Western Europe in the future the development of the environmental movement trajectory,based on the comparative analysis of this article,consider that there are four possible development trend.Based on the analysis and research of French environmental movement,the development of French environmental movement generally shows fluctuations in a steady state,eventually to the direction of a "new citizenship" or an "environmental citizenship" direction.Study through the analysis of the environmental movement in Germany,the German model of development is a dynamic trajectory,ups and downs of the sustainable development of the western environmental movement in the future will be more institutionalized,and environmental groups will be more closely associated with the greens.France and Germany mode is also possible to fusion,the French-German integration mode,the two countries in Western Europe environment games clear distinction between the institutionalization and uniqueness do wrong,neither seeking too much lower levels of the mobilization of institutionalization,also can't just rely on the streets to protest to express interest demands,system inside and outside the system,make the environmental movement to better development.Against the background of specification,the environmental justice movement gradually moves from local to global.Environmentalmovement in Western Europe as the main representative of the environmental movement,in the tide of global environmental justice movement,will also be actively involved in,on the environmental problems of global thinking and local action.But it is not easy to truly think globally at the moment.