Acting Locally - Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns

Zusatztext 'This is a very interesting volume that will be useful to researchers and students of social movements! particularly environmental mobilizations and campaigns.' -Social Movement Studies! Vol. 9! No. 1! 92! January 2010 Informationen zum Autor Christopher Rootes is Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Klappentext Until now, local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on European examples, this book fills the gap by examining the networks amongst actors and organizations which connect local campaigns to the larger environmental movement and political systems. Zusammenfassung Until now, local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on European examples, this book fills the gap by examining the networks amongst actors and organizations which connect local campaigns to the larger environmental movement and political systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Local Environmental Mobilizations 2. Still the Time of Environmental Movements? Environmental Organizational Fields in Britain and Italy 3. Local Contention, Global Framing: The Protest Campaigns against the TAV in Val de Susa and the Bridge on the Messina Straits 4. From Larzac to the Altermondialist Mobilization: Space in Environmental Movements 5. Networking the Local and the National: Environmental Activists and Campaigns in London 6. Local Environmental Protest in Greece 7. Environmental Direct Action Protests in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales 8. Resisting the Costs of ‘Development’: Local Environmental Activism in Ireland 9. Conclusion: Local Environmental Mobilisations in Context

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Rootes, Christopher (University of Kent At Canterb Rootes
• Assisted by: Christopher Rootes (Editor), Rootes Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2008
• EAN: 9780415457644
• ISBN: 978-0-415-45764-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Environmental Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Politics & government, Politics and government, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols