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Environmental Knowledge and Environmental Politics in Portugal: From Resistance to Incorporation

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Perspectives Issue 2016/4

This article traces the development of environmentalism in Portugal, and particularly the role of environmental NGOs as producers of expert knowledge to be used in policy making. The Portuguese environmental movement has professionalized rather than formalizing as green political parties. Portuguese environmentalism has adapted and evolved under authoritarian regimes, neoliberalism, European integration, and the financial crisis.

Coal in the Age of the Oil Sands

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Perspectives Issue 2016/4

Piper argues that coal has played an important role in Alberta’s history, although it receives less attention than the oil sands. Coal has been essential to Alberta’s economy and the industry has benefited from government support, although from the 1970s this came into conflict with growing grassroots environmentalism. Whether the coal industry can withstand recent political and economic changes, however, remains to be seen.

Bombs and Biodiversity: A Case Study of Military Environmentalism in Australia

by Benjamin Wilkie

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Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 15

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Divide in Concord

This film follows an 84-year old woman’s campaign to ban the sale of bottled water in the small American town of Concord, Massachusetts.

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Groundswell Rising

This film shows how the oil and gas industries, rich with political connections, obtained a position of almost untouchable power and how at-risk communities have united to fight back.

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Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste

This film follows the efforts of the city of San Francisco to reach zero waste.

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Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary

This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.

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Standing on Sacred Ground: Fire and Ice

This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Ethiopians and the Q’eros people of the Peruvian Andes against the pressures of religious conflicts and climate change.

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Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss

This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.

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Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists

This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.

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