Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements (Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice, 15) - Hardcover

Leonard, Liam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783506970 ISBN 13: 9781783506972

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

The onset of global concerns about environmental risks, climate change and threats to the planet from industry have focused the minds of a generation. Throughout the world, new movements are emerging in an attempt to challenge those who would put profits before the planet. This volume brings together global contributions that represent the cutting edge of research in the area of global environmental movements. Contributions include chapters on the impacts of environmental groups globally,  including the work of Greenpeace in Brazil, environmental activism in Ireland, animal rights and anti-hunt activism in Malta, the global de-growth movement, environmental movement mobilization in China, and anti-pollution activism in India. The scope and breath of this research indicates the emergence of both a global grassroots environmental mobilization in addition to analysis and documentation of these responses by researchers world-wide. With increased threats from climatic change and ecological degradation being highlighted as a threat to much of the world's population in the coming century, this activism and ensuing research becomes all the more significant.

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About the Author

Liam Leonard - West Virginia University
Sya B. Kedzior - Towson University

Dr. Liam Leonard (BA; M. Phil; PhD) Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, West Virginia University and Researcher and International Academic Consultant, is based in California, USA. Previously, Liam has been Chair of the Criminology Association of Ireland and former President of the Sociology Association of Ireland. He lectures Sociology, Criminology, Politics, Human Rights, Penology/Prison Studies, Sustainability and Environmental Issues, Social Movements, Social Capital, Professional Development and Equality & Diversity.  The author/editor of over ten books and numerous journal articles, he is Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Books Series, the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Book Series (both with Emerald UK) and Founding Editor of the CRIMSOC Journal of Social Criminology.
Dr. Leonard has edited the 2011 Irish issue of the Prison Journal, as well as special issues of Environmental Politics and the Irish Journal of Sociology.  Dr. Leonard was awarded the Sage Publishing Research Excellence Award in New York as well as the NAIRTL Research & Teaching Award in 2012, and has over twelve years experience as an academic and lecturer in the National University of Ireland and the Irish Institute of Technology sectors.
He has given papers at the European Sociology Association, European Criminology Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Group for Crime & Deviance and the Irish Sociology and Irish Criminology Conferences. Dr. Leonard sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Prison Journal and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. Since June 2013, Dr. Leonard has lived in Orange County, California, where he edits the SOC: Sociology in Orange County resource page.

Review

Social and environmental scientists describe environmental movements from across the globe to provide insight into the state of the world's contemporary environmental movements. Their topics include one global movement, many local voices: discourse(s) of the global anti-fracking movement; locating environmental knowledge in anti-pollution movements of northern India; the Mayangna resolve to save the rainforest, their homelands; exploring ideology as a resource for environmental justice activism: reflections from the anti-GMO movement in France; from disparate action to collective mobilization: collective action frames and the Canadian food movement; and spiritual ecology as an international environmental movement. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2015 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783506970
• ISBN 13: 9781783506972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 275