Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

Highlights • Support of environmental defenders requires better understanding of environmental conflicts.• Environmental defenders employ largely non-violent protest forms.• Indigenous environmental defenders face significantly higher rates of violence.• Combining preventive mobilization, tactical diversity and litigation increases activists’ success.• Global grassroots environmentalism is a promising force for sustainability.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Global Environmental Change

• Publication date

  2020-07-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102104PMID 32801483PMCID 7418451
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