The resistance dilemma : place-based movements and the climate crisis /
"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | American and comparative environmental policy
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving policy forward, but it might also indirectly threaten the clean energy transformation needed to address the climate crisis"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 0262367157 9780262367158 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/13668.001.0001 |