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Environmental Blockades

Author : Iain McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100039588X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Blockades written by Iain McIntyre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, environmental blockades disrupting the exploitation and destruction of forests, rivers, and other biodiverse places have been one of the most attention-grabbing and contentious forms of political action. This book explores when, where, and why environmental blockading and its associated tactics first arose. The author explores a broad range of questions, including how did tactics and practices first developed and popularised during environmental blockades come to feature regularly in animal rights, peace, refugee, and other campaigns? What are blockaders hoping to achieve? How have such blockades and tactics shaped government policy, the culture of modern politics, and popular understandings of ecology, colonialism, and activism? This book offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of environmental blockading in three key countries: Australia, the United States, and Canada. As the first places to experience sustained protest cycles which fully established, promoted, and developed the environmental blockading repertoire as an ongoing strategic option for movements nationally and internationally, these campaigns were central in creating a new approach to conservation issues. They also played a leading role in making obstructive direct action a regular part of political campaigning, as seen in the form of the Extinction Rebellion (XR), alter-globalisation, climate justice, and other movements. This book draws on rigorous archival research including sources ranging from personal diaries, campaign minutes, and video footage through to police reports and newspaper articles, as well as interviews with more than 30 protest leaders and campaigners. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology, political science, history, green criminology, and interdisciplinary environmental studies.

Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism

Author : Vanessa Bible
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319704702
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism written by Vanessa Bible and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Terania Creek – the world’s first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the Australian counterculture was a mere imitation of overseas models, the Australian movement, coalescing with a home-grown environment movement, came of age at Terania Creek. After five years of ‘polite’ campaigning failed to stop the logging of ancient Gondwanan rainforest, an organic and spontaneous blockade erupted that would see the forging of a number of ingenious blockading techniques and strategies. The activist repertoire developed at Terania Creek has since echoed across the country, and across the Earth. This book draws on extensive oral history interviews as well as photographs taken of the protest in 1979; such rich source material brings the story to life. Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism will therefore appeal to both a scholarly audience as well as activists, practitioners, and counterculturalists.

Blockades Or Breakthroughs?

Author : Yale Deron Belanger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773543910
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Blockades Or Breakthroughs? written by Yale Deron Belanger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people. The adoption of direct action tactics like blockades and occupations is predicated on the idea that something drastic is needed for Aboriginal groups to break an unfavourable status quo, overcome structural barriers, and achieve their goals. But are blockades actually "breakthroughs"? What are the objectives of Aboriginal people and communities who adopt this approach? How can the success of these methods be measured? This collection offers an in-depth survey of occupations, blockades, and their legacies, from 1968 to the present. Individual case studies situate specific blockades and conflicts in historical context, examine each group's reasons for occupation, and analyze the media labels and frames applied to both Aboriginal and state responses. Direct action tactics remain a powerful political tool for First Nations in Canada. The authors of Blockades or Breakthroughs? Argue that blockades and occupations are instrumental, symbolic, and complex events that demand equally multifaceted responses. Contributors include Yale D. Belanger, Tom Flanagan, Sarah King, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, David Rossiter, John Sandlos, Nick Shrubsole, and Timothy Winegard.

Barriers to a Better Environment

Author : Stephen Thomas Trudgill
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Barriers to a Better Environment written by Stephen Thomas Trudgill and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environment Betrayed

Author : Edward C. Krug
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475911275
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Environment Betrayed written by Edward C. Krug and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of articles, an environmental scientist traces a journey through the wilderness of environmental politics. In his travels, Dr. Edward Krug developed a unique perspective on vital areas of the environmental issues, making him critical of both sides of the environmental debate. "Environment Betrayed" delves into numerous environmental issues and into environmentalism itself, presenting both Dr. Krug's opinions and the well-documented opinions of others who were active participants in the environmental arena. Dr. Krug has worked as an environmental scientist since the early eighties, and much of the research and information included here originated in the eighties and nineties. Despite this gap of time, defenders of modern Western civilization don't seem to recognize the nature of the environmental war, let alone many of its details. By raising issues, environmentalists also define the battlefield-that is, the context of thought. Krug cites credible sources on both sides of the debate with varying perspectives on where things stand in this conflict. Only by gaining a clear understanding of what's at stake can we truly grasp the numerous environmental issues swirling around us and what they will mean for our future.

Blockades and Resistance

Author : Bruce W. Hodgins
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889207755
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Blockades and Resistance written by Bruce W. Hodgins and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Aboriginal resistance movements on Canada, focussing especially on the Temagami and Oka blockades.

This Crazy Time

Author : Tzeporah Berman
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 030739980X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book This Crazy Time written by Tzeporah Berman and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's most controversial campaigners, This Crazy Time is the No Logo of the NEW environmental movement, an essential must-read that combines Bill Bryson's personable style and humour with Naomi Klein's hard-hitting activism and research. Passionate, profound, inspiring and funny, Berman is inspiring people from all walks of life to get off the sidelines and fight the good fight--and win. This unique book--part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom--offers a wryly honest, behind the scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the planet. For almost 20 years, Tzeporah Berman has been one of our most influential environmentalists. A founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, she was instrumental in shaping the tactics and concerns of the modern environmental movement. In her early 20s she faced nearly one thousand criminal charges and 6 years in prison for her role organizing blockades in Canada's rainforest. With ForestEthics she took on Victoria's Secret with a photo of a chainsaw-wielding lingerie model, convincing the catalogue manufacturer to stop using paper made from old-growth forests. She then transformed her tactics and sat down with CEOs and political leaders to reshape their policies and practices. She participated in saving over 12 million acres of endangered forests, including Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, and has campaigned against the development of Canada's oil sands. In her new role at Greenpeace International she is fighting the problem of our time: climate change, including researching the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill and protesting oil drilling in the Arctic. As a concerned mother, her book is an impassioned plea for a better world.

Blockades or Breakthroughs?

Author : Yale D. Belanger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596135
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Blockades or Breakthroughs? written by Yale D. Belanger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people. The adoption of direct action tactics like blockades and occupations is predicated on the idea that something drastic is needed for Aboriginal groups to break an unfavourable status quo, overcome structural barriers, and achieve their goals. But are blockades actually "breakthroughs"? What are the objectives of Aboriginal people and communities who adopt this approach? How can the success of these methods be measured? This collection offers an in-depth survey of occupations, blockades, and their legacies, from 1968 to the present. Individual case studies situate specific blockades and conflicts in historical context, examine each group’s reasons for occupation, and analyze the media labels and frames applied to both Aboriginal and state responses. Direct action tactics remain a powerful political tool for First Nations in Canada. The authors of Blockades or Breakthroughs? Argue that blockades and occupations are instrumental, symbolic, and complex events that demand equally multifaceted responses. Contributors include Yale D. Belanger, Tom Flanagan, Sarah King, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, David Rossiter, John Sandlos, Nick Shrubsole, and Timothy Winegard.

Handbook of Energy and Environmental Security

Author : Muhammad Asif
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128240857
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Energy and Environmental Security written by Muhammad Asif and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Energy and Environmental Security educates the reader about the wider dimensions of the distinctive yet intertwined subjects of ‘energy security and ‘environmental security’. The book uniquely addresses these two increasingly important topics in a comprehensive and composite manner, describing the concepts and wider dimensions of energy- and environmental security in technological, economic, social and geopolitical perspectives. Divided into three main parts, the book deals with the subject of energy security in terms of its concepts, broader dimensions and allied issues, focuses on environmental security, and covers subjects in a cohesive manner, discussing their important interfaces and commonalities. Providing valuable scholarship for academics, researchers and analysts in the fields of energy and the environment, and using case studies to illustrate national and international levels, this is a valuable resource for energy- and environmental security challenges, especially in the areas of sustainable development and climate change. Discusses the critical subjects of ‘energy security’ and ‘environmental security’ in a composite manner Incorporates up-to-date data, case studies and comparative assessments Energy and environmental policy frameworks are covered from the perspective of both developed and developing countries

The Ecocentrists

Author : Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547153
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Ecocentrists written by Keith Makoto Woodhouse and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the premises of liberal humanism, they subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Although critics dismissed them as marginal, radicals posed a vital question that mainstream groups too often ignored: Is environmentalism a matter of common sense or a fundamental critique of the modern world? In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Woodhouse explores how radical environmentalism responded to both postwar affluence and a growing sense of physical limits. While radicals challenged the material and philosophical basis of industrial civilization, they glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s different relationships to the nonhuman world. Woodhouse discusses how such views increasingly set Earth First! at odds with movements focused on social justice and examines the implications of ecocentrism’s sweeping critique of human society for the future of environmental protection. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States, The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought.

Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence

Author : M. Branagan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113701010X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence written by M. Branagan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militarism is the elephant in the room of global warming. Of all government sectors, 'Defence' has the highest carbon footprint and expenditure, yet has largely been exempt from international scrutiny and regulation. Marty Branagan uses Australian and international case studies to show that nonviolence is a viable alternative to militarism for national defence and regime change. 'Active resistance', initiated in Australian environmental blockades and now adopted globally, makes the song 'We Shall Not Be Moved' much more realistic, as activists erect tripod villages, bury, chain and cement themselves into the ground, and 'lock-on' to machinery and gates. Active resistance, 'artistic activism', and use of new information and communication technologies in movements such as the Arab Spring and 'Occupy' demonstrate that nonviolence is an effective, evolving praxis.

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere

Author : Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506363601
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere written by Phaedra C. Pezzullo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this award-winning text remains the most comprehensive introduction in the growing field of environmental communication, offering insights into real-world applications of the topic and exploring recent events such as the Trump Administration, the People’s Climate March and international legal precedents.

Internal Trade Barriers in the Environmental Protection Sector

Author : Apogee Research
Publisher : The Council
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Internal Trade Barriers in the Environmental Protection Sector written by Apogee Research and published by The Council. This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study reported in this document was designed to contribute to on-going work on policy harmonization and on the environmental protection provisions of the Agreement on Internal Trade. It first discusses ways of defining internal trade barriers, including impacts-based and principles-based definitions such as those contained in trade agreements. It develops a framework to help identify the trade impacts of environmental protection measures and to determine if the measures constitute internal trade barriers. Such measures include emission standards, product and packaging standards, eco-labelling, professional licensing, product charges, government procurement policies, and subsidies. The framework is then applied to 17 generic environmental protection measures including command-and-control regulations and economic instruments. The framework is also applied to existing measures that have been identified as internal trade barriers. Finally, the impacts of environmental measures on internal trade are evaluated.

Resisting Global Toxics

Author : David Naguib Pellow
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262662019
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Resisting Global Toxics written by David Naguib Pellow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them. Every year, nations and corporations in the “global North” produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material—inked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage—is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and charts the emergence of transnational environmental justice movements to challenge and reverse it. Pellow argues that waste dumping across national boundaries from rich to poor communities is a form of transnational environmental inequality that reflects North/South divisions in a globalized world, and that it must be theorized in the context of race, class, nation, and environment. Building on environmental justice studies, environmental sociology, social movement theory, and race theory, and drawing on his own research, interviews, and participant observations, Pellow investigates the phenomenon of global environmental inequality and considers the work of activists, organizations, and networks resisting it. He traces the transnational waste trade from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present day, examining global garbage dumping, the toxic pesticides that are the legacy of the Green Revolution in agriculture, and today's scourge of dumping and remanufacturing high tech and electronics products. The rise of the transnational environmental movements described in Resisting Global Toxics charts a pragmatic path toward environmental justice, human rights, and sustainability.

Family Environment and Delinquency

Author : Sheldon Glueck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136250352
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Family Environment and Delinquency written by Sheldon Glueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociology of youth and culture. Spanning volumes by Parsons, Dickinson and Ossowski, the history of the ILS is the history of modern sociology.

Grassroots Environmental Governance

Author : Leah S. Horowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317303067
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Environmental Governance written by Leah S. Horowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.

Environment Reporters in the 21st Century

Author : James Simon
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412843898
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Environment Reporters in the 21st Century written by James Simon and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment Reporters in the 21st Century is the story of a relatively new journalistic beat, environmental reporting. This book explores the development of the environmental beat as a specialty during the last thirty years. It also discusses broader trends within American journalism resulting from technological changes that challenge traditional mediums, especially newspapers and magazines. The book is divided into three parts. The first reviews the literature and explains the methodology. The second describes the results of the authors’ research. The third provides in-depth accounts of environment reporters at work. A final chapter puts the research in historical perspective, viewing it in terms of the economic decline of the newspaper business and of local television news. Journalists mediate a constant struggle among thousands of environmental activists, corporate public relations people, government officials, and scientists to shape environmental reporting. This volume tells the story of environmental reporting imaginatively and innovatively.