- Reviews the most significant ecological campaigns in Ireland during the last four decades
- Examines key themes in Irish environmental politics and the main components that define such events
- Analyses environmental collective action and campaigns using social movement theories, including resource mobilization, political opportunity, framing and event analysis
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Collective responses to Ireland’s dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised economy obsessed by rapid growth and development occurred in two phases:
Phase One took place between the "No Nukes" protests of the late 1970’s when campaigns targeted multinational plants or infrastructural projects perceived as a pollution threat during years of economic stagnation.
Phase Two occurred after economic buoyancy was achieved, as the demands of rapid growth threatened communities, the environment and Irish heritage in the face of major infrastructural projects such as roads, incinerators and gas pipelines.
Starting with the Woodquay protests in Dublin, the "No Nukes" protests at Carnsore Point, the "Shell to Sea" campaign in Mayo and the campaign to save Tara from destruction, these significant ecological campaigns, based on the community’s localised sense of place or rural sentiment, have formed the response to these challenges which are analysed here using social movement theories such as resource mobilisation, political opportunity, framing and event analysis.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Environmentalism Debate
Pages 3-20
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Irish Environmental Activism: From Woodquay to the ‘Celtic Tiger’
Pages 21-49
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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Irish Green Party
Pages 51-63
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Rural Sentiment and the Irish Environmental Movement
Pages 67-76
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Rural Sentiment as Ecological Capital
Pages 77-89
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Environmental Movement in Ireland
- Authors
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- Liam Leonard
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-6812-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-6812-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-6811-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-7733-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 234
- Topics
