This thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems. International contributors investigate the ways in which anti-environmentalism differs across regions and by the nature of the issue, alongside unique coverage of the critiques of environmental movements coming from sources that are not anti-environmental. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues. Chapters also analyse our understanding of countermovements, the effect of public opinion on environmental policy, and original empirical case studies from North America, Oceania, Europe and Asia. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism will be a key resource for scholars and students of environmental politics and policy, environmental sociology, environmental governance and social movements.

This book examines the "oil-tourism interface", the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism are pursued as development paths across the North Atlantic region. Offshore oil promises economic benefits from employment and royalty payments to host societies, but is based on fossil fuel-intensive resource extraction. Nature-based tourism, instead, is based on experiencing natural environments and encountering wildlife, including whales, seals, or seabirds. They share social-ecological space, such as oceans, coastlines, cities and towns where tourism and offshore oil operations and offices are located. However, they rarely share cultural or political space, in terms of media coverage, public debate, or policy discussion that integrates both modes of development. Through a comparative analysis of Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway, and Scotland, this book offers important lessons for how coastal societies can better navigate relationships between resource extraction and nature-based tourism in the interests of social-ecological wellbeing.

This book examines the "oil-tourism interface", the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism are pursued as development paths across the North Atlantic region. Offshore oil promises economic benefits from employment and royalty payments to host societies, but is based on fossil fuel-intensive resource extraction. Nature-based tourism, instead, is based on experiencing natural environments and encountering wildlife, including whales, seals, or seabirds. They share social-ecological space, such as oceans, coastlines, cities and towns where tourism and offshore oil operations and offices are located. However, they rarely share cultural or political space, in terms of media coverage, public debate, or policy discussion that integrates both modes of development. Through a comparative analysis of Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway, and Scotland, this book offers important lessons for how coastal societies can better navigate relationships between resource extraction and nature-based tourism in the interests of social-ecological wellbeing.

Mountains bear the imprint of human activity. Deep scars fromlogging and surface mining crosscut the landmarks of sports andrecreation - national parks and lookout areas, ski slopesand lodges. Although the environmental effects of extractive industriesare well known, skiing is more likely to bring to mind images ofluxury, wealth, and health.

In "Making Meaning out of Mountains, " Mark Stoddart draws oninterviews, field observations, and media analysis to explore how theski industry in British Columbia has helped transform mountainenvironments and, in turn, how skiing has come to be inscribed withmultiple, often conflicted meanings informed by power struggles rootedin race, class, and gender. Corporate leaders promote the skiingindustry as sustainable development, while environmentalists and someFirst Nations argue that skiing sacrifices wildlife habitats andtraditional lands to tourism and corporate gain. Skiers themselvesappreciate the opportunity to commune with nature but are concernedabout skiing's environmental effects.

Stoddart not only challenges us to reflect more seriously onskiing's negative impact on mountain environments, he alsoreveals how certain groups came to be viewed as the"natural" inhabitants and legitimate managers of mountainenvironments.

Mark C.J. Stoddart is an assistant professor ofsociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.