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
system.
But local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected
in the scientific literature. Drawing on examples from Britain,
France, Greece, Ireland and Italy, this book seeks to redress that
neglect by examining the networks among actors and organisations
that connect local mobilizations to the larger environmental
movement and political systems, the ways in which local disputes
are framed in order to connect with national and global issues, and
the persistent impacts of the peculiarities of place upon
environmental campaigns.
This book was previously published as a special issue of
Environmental Politics
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