Environmental movements and political opportunities: The case of China

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-68

  Xie, Lei ^a   van der Heijden, Hein Anton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

China; Environmental movements; Environmental politics; Large dams; Political opportunity structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956173615     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742830903442527     Document Type: Article

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