From a small movement of environmentalists with sparsely distributed supporters across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, the Greens nowadays have evolved into influential political parties and are currently an essential part of the political landscape in many countries around the world. Today green parties in Europe and other parts of the world are fully capable of competing with other political parties in elections and are often represented in local as well as national legislative. For instance, the success of Germany’s Green party in the German Federal Elections of 2021, when the Greens won nearly 15% of the vote and the third largest number of seats in the Bundestag [Eu.boell.org, 2021], was viewed by many as another step forward in the advancement of environmentalist views in Europe.
PDFKanat Makhanov is a research fellow at the Eurasian Institute of the International H.A Yassawi Kazakh-Turkish University. He holds a BA in Business Economics from the KIMEP University from 2012. In 2014 he earned his Masters degree in Economics from the University of Vigo (Spain), completing his thesis on “Industrial Specialization in autonomous regions of Spain and Kazakhstan”. His main research interests are Spatial Economics, Economic Geography, Regional Economics, Human and Economic Geography.