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Now Available: Ecopolitics Online & the Environmental Movement in Ireland

  • 1.  Now Available: Ecopolitics Online & the Environmental Movement in Ireland

    Posted 03-19-2008 20:33
    Hello, I would like to notify you about these
    Environmental Publications which may be of interest:

    1. New Book by Dr. Liam Leonard, National University
    of
    Ireland, Galway: The Environmental Movement in Ireland
    http://www.springer.com/east/home/social+sciences?SGWID=5-40384-22-173764244-0
    The Environmental Movement in Ireland
    Leonard, Liam
    (with a forward by John Barry).
    2008, xvi, 236p., Hardcover
    ISBN: 978-1-4020-6811-9
    Due: November 26, 2007
    approx. 119,95 €
    About this book:
    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.
    Written for:
    Graduate students and researchers interested in
    environment, sociology, political science and Irish
    heritage
    Keywords:
    Ireland
    Irish heritage
    environmental theory
    rural sentiment
    social movements
    _______________________________________

    2. Ecopolitics Online Journal: Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter
    2007
    Now available at:
    http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com/index.cfm?action=journals&articlesID=138E1FC5-8024-BD42-4068149106DCF4AD

    Volume 1 No. 1 of the Ecopolitics Online Journal,
    titled: Utopias, ecotopias and green communities:
    Ecopolitics Online Journal Volume 1 No. 1 Winter 2007

    CALL FOR PAPERS:
    ECOPOLITICS ONLINE JOURNAL
    Vol. 1 No. 2
    ISSN 2009-0315
    http//:www.ecopoliticsonline.com
    Regards,
    Liam Leonard,
    National University of Ireland,
    Galway
    cc John Barry,
    Queens Univ. Belfast, NI
    Senior Editors
    Ecopolitics Online


    Dr Liam Leonard
    Politics & Sociology NUI Galway
    The Environmental Movement in Ireland
    http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-6811-9
    http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com
    http://www.liamleonard.blogspot.com






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