The new environmentalism? [ civil society and corruption in the enlarged EU

Comparative in approach, The New Environmentalism? provides new insights into the emergence of strong civic movements at local and trans-local levels, in resistance to citizens' sense of increasing alienation from political participation and decision making. As such, it will be of interest to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Torsello, Davide (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Surrey, England : Ashgate , c2012
Series:Urban anthropology
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/ASHGATEB0001352/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Environmentalism
  • 2. Civil society: ambiguities and opportunities
  • 3. The ethnographic study of corruption
  • 4. Case one: the motorway transport project in Povaska´ Bystrica, Slovakia
  • 5. Case two: road transport development in the Czech Republic: the Brno-Vienna highway
  • 6. Case three: railway transport project in north-western Italy: the TAV
  • 7. Case four: the Budapest M0 ring-road
  • 8. Case five: illegal waste export to Central Eastern Europe