Defending Island Ecologies: Environmental Campaigns in Tasmania and Taiwan

The article compares and contrasts the iconic environmental campaigns of two island jurisdictions, Tasmania and Taiwan–the Franklin-Gordon ‘wild rivers’ campaign in the first case; the Chilan Forest campaign in the second. The features of each campaign are delineated–the levels of government involve...

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Published in:Journal of developing societies 2006-09, Vol.22 (3), p.303-326
Main Authors: Chen, Henry C. L., Hay, Pete
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Activists
Australia
Comparative analysis
Cultural studies
Development studies
Ecology
Environmental management
Environmental policy
Environmental Protection
Environmentalism
Islands
Paradigms
Social movements
Social research
Sociology
Tactics
Taiwan
Tasmania
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Summary:The article compares and contrasts the iconic environmental campaigns of two island jurisdictions, Tasmania and Taiwan–the Franklin-Gordon ‘wild rivers’ campaign in the first case; the Chilan Forest campaign in the second. The features of each campaign are delineated–the levels of government involved; the institutional fault lines that developed; the scale of campaign operations; activist tactics; and the significance, within their respective contexts, of each iconic campaign. How each campaign ‘fits’ a wider context of environmental activism is sketched, and the article concludes with an agenda for future cross-island research into environmental activism.
ISSN:0169-796X
1745-2546
DOI:10.1177/0169796X06068033