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1 online resource (176 pages) |
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Environmental Politics |
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Environmental Politics
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| Contents |
Cover; Acting Locally; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Acting Locally: The Character, Contexts and Significance of Local Environmental Mobilisations; 2. The National and the Local: Relationships among Environmental Movement Organisations in London; 3. Still the Time of Environmental Movements? A Local Perspective; 4. Local Environmental Protest in Greece, 1974-94: Exploring the Political Dimension; 5. Environmental Direct Action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: A Protest Event Analysis |
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6. From Larzac to the Altermondialist Mobilisation: Space in Environmental Movements7. Resisting the Costs of 'Development': Local Environmental Activism in Ireland; 8. Local Contention, Global Framing: The Protest Campaigns against the TAV in Val di Susa and the Bridge on the Messina Straits; Index |
| Summary |
Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention. National and transnational mobilisations come and go and the attention they receive from mass media ebbs and flows, but local campaigns persist. The persistence or re-emergence of local campaigns is also a reminder that it remain possible to mobilise people around environmental issues, and they have often served as sources of innovation in and re-invigoration of national organisations that have allegedly been co-opted by the powerful and incorporated into the established political and administrative sy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Environmental policy -- Europe
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Environmental protection -- Europe -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
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Environmentalism -- Europe -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Environmental policy
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Environmental protection -- Citizen participation
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Environmentalism
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317968726 |
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1317968727 |
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