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Chapter 8 Environmental disputes in France

Global Ecological Politics

ISBN: 978-1-84950-748-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-749-3

Publication date: 23 February 2010

Abstract

French environmental actors have suffered from long-term exclusion from policy-making. However, an increasingly precarious environmental movement continues to diversify its actions. The French political setting is also undergoing processes of decentralisation and Europeanisation. Moreover, French state–group relations are unravelling within a multi-level opportunity system as well as a continually transforming domestic environment under the pressure of European Union (EU) processes, polices and institutions. Drawing from empirical evidence on biodiversity conflicts, it is argued that the debate should move from a state-centric to a group/movement-centric approach.

Citation

McCauley, D. (2010), "Chapter 8 Environmental disputes in France", Leonard, L. and Barry, J. (Ed.) Global Ecological Politics (Advances in Ecopolitics, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2010)0000005012

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