ABSTRACT
In Europe, environmentalism is most developed in the "core" area of central Western Europe. Both organizational forms of environmentalism – parties and movements – are well developed in this area. The analysis was the identification of factors that account for the development of green politics in the European Community (EC) and the demarcation of their west European stronghold. The construction of any complex map of environmental pollution and devastation on the European scale is complicated, but the most affected area coincides more or less with the already identified "core" or "cradle" of European environmentalism. While such an identification of the "core" and "periphery" of environmentalism in a spatial or geographical sense might seem quite predictable, the geographical distribution of "personal complaint" and "general concern" with the state of environment in the EC is more intriguing. Eastern Europe is the part of the continent that has been experiencing unprecedented economic crisis accompanied by a wave of "aggressive" nationalism.
