From local conflict to national issue: When and how environmental campaigns succeed in transcending the local

Environmental Politics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-114

  Rootes, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; environmental NGOs; issue framing; local campaigns; networks; NIMBY; scale shift

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTALISM; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; NOT IN MY BACK YARD RESPONSE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84874176507     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2013.755791     Document Type: Article

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