‘We are not the Wild West’: anti-fracking protests in Romania

Environmental Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 288-307

  Vesalon, Lucian ^a   Creţan, Remus ^a  

^a WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

environmental organisations; environmental protests; neoliberalisation; Romania; shale gas; fracking

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS; NATURAL RESOURCE; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; POPULAR PROTEST; SHALE;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84926518179     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.1000639     Document Type: Article

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