Jamison et al. (1990) offer an exemplary analysis of the early development of the modern environmental movement in Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, but there is, unfortunately, no comparable work in English on other European countries.

Flam (1994) presents analyses of anti-nuclear movements in the major western European states. Richardson and Rootes (1995) describe and analyze the development of Green parties. Rootes (2004) presents an overview of the social scientific literature on environmental movements.

Although van Koppen and Markham (2007) is focused upon nature protection organizations, it offers up-to-date accounts of most of the major players in environmental movements in eight European states and the United States. Rootes (2007) brings together analyses of reported environmental protests in seven states in the years from 1988.

• Flam, Helena, ed. States and Anti-nuclear Movements. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.
• Jamison, Andrew, et al. The Making of the New Environmental Consciousness: A Comparative Study of the Environmental Movements in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.
• Richardson, Dick, and Chris Rootes, eds. The Green Challenge: The Development of Green Parties in Europe. London: Routledge, 1995.
• Rootes, Christopher, ed. “Environmental Movements.” in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David Snow, et al., 608–40. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Rootes, Christopher. Environmental Protest in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• van Koppen, C. S. A., and William Markham, eds. Protecting Nature Organizations and Networks in Europe and the USA. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007.