The Right to Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures
Redaktion: Apostolopoulou, Elia; Cortes-Vazquez, Jose A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429763090
• Artikelnr.: 54786003

Autorenporträt

Elia Apostolopoulou is a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK. Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez is an InTalent senior researcher at the University of A Coruña, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Neoliberalism and environmental movements around the World
after the 2008 financial crash: Defending the right to nature Elia
Apostolopoulou and Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez PART 1: extractivism and
environmental justice movements 1. Self-determination as resistance:
re-asserting control over natural resources in Colombia Charlotte
Christiaens, Lucy Mears, Andy Whitmore and Hannibal Rhoades 2.
Petro-Politics and Local Natural Resource Protection: Grassroots Opposition
to the Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska. James Ordner 3. Navigating
state-led extractivism in Ecuador and Russia: fluid identities and agendas
of socio-environmental movements Denisse Rodríguez and Julia Loginova 4.
Beyond winning and losing: the rise of the social movement against
mega-mining projects in Northern Greece Citizens' Coordinating Committee of
Ierissos against gold-copper mining 5. Land rights and justice in
neoliberal Mozambique: The case of Afungi community relocations Kate Symons
6. Possibilities and Pitfalls of Environmental Justice Action: Learning
from Röia Montan¿ and Yaigojé Apaporis Anti-mining Struggles Ioana Florea
and Hannibal Rhoades PART 2: Green Struggles against capitalist
urbanization And Infrastructure Construction 7. Egyptian Environmentalism
and Urban Grassroots Mobilisation Noura Wahby 8. Landscape and outdoor
domestic space towards food sovereignty and environmental regeneration:
approaches from Mozambique and Latin America Céline Veríssimo and Leo Name
9. Access to information and the construction of sustainability discourse
in the case of the Bus Rapid Transit Transolímpica, in Rio de Janeiro
Camila Nobrega Rabello Alves 10. The Political Ecology of Urban Space in
Transition Sam Beck 11. Environmental justice claims and dimensions in
anti-megaproject campaigns in Europe: The case of the forum against
Unnecessary and Imposed Megaprojects Alfred Burballa-Noria PART 3: The
economic valuation of nature: from academic debates to activist action 12.
Isolation and abstraction to tackle deforestation: The problem of theory as
a practical problem in environmental issues Mario Hernandez-Trejo 13.
Natural capital accounting (NCA): roles in corporate environmental
stewardship Les Levidow 14. Offsetting for whom? Re:Common 15. Nature is
our Right: Framing a new nature protection debate in Europe Sandra Bell and
Friedrich Wulf 16. Nature's Rights and Earth Jurisprudence - A New
Ecologically-Based Paradigm for Environmental Law Mumta Ito and
Massimiliano Montini 17. Nature, Rights and Political Movements Larry
Lohmann PART 4: Tracking alternatives to the neoliberal agenda: radical
environmentalism and community action 18. The commons as organizing
infrastructure: Indigenous collaborations and post-neoliberal visions in
Ecuador Tristan Partridge 19. Illegal Camping on 'Stolen Native Land'
Amanda K. Winter 20. Gerontocracies of affect: how the "politics of
austerity" have reshaped elder environmental radicalism Mary Gearey 21.
Humans in the landscape: Low-impact Development as a response to the
neoliberal environmental agenda Julyan Levy Afterword - the right to
nature: lessons learned and future directions Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez and
Elia Apostolopoulou