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Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development

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Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives. Natural resource development takes multiple forms, including infrastructure corridors, mines, dams, resource processing plants and pipelines. Many of which are driven by economic valuations, whilst social and environmental effects are given limited consideration. In this volume the authors discuss the emergence, process and outcomes of social movements with respect to these natural resource development projects, including examples of confrontation seeking to either block developments or promote alternative development approaches, such as agritourism. The examples taken from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America demonstrate the diversity of struggles stimulated by natural resource development, including both immediate and longer-term effects, repertoires of action, political and cultural work. Taken together the case studies provide a rich overview of current movements engaged in resisting the neoliberal agenda of global resource exploitation. This book will be key reading for scholars interested in social movements, natural resource development, environmental policy and development studies. It will also be of interest to activists engaged in mobilizations stimulated by natural resource development projects.

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ISBN: 9781138064737
Publication date: 28th October 2019
Author: John F. (University of Guelph, Canada) Devlin
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 190 pages
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Genres: Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations
Rural communities