About the Book

This thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems.

International contributors investigate the ways in which anti-environmentalism differs across regions and by the nature of the issue, alongside unique coverage of the critiques of environmental movements coming from sources that are not anti-environmental. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues. Chapters also analyse our understanding of countermovements, the effect of public opinion on environmental policy, and original empirical case studies from North America, Oceania, Europe and Asia.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism will be a key resource for scholars and students of environmental politics and policy, environmental sociology, environmental governance and social movements.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword: foreign-funded radicals x James Hoggan PART I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1 The contours of anti-environmentalism: an introduction to the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism 2 Mark C.J. Stoddart, David Tindall and Riley E. Dunlap PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2 Understanding countermovements 23 Suzanne Staggenborg and David S. Meyer 3 Against environmentalism for the common good: a theoretical model 43 Nicholas Scott PART III ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM DISCOURSE AND FRAMING 4 ‘Total preservation is just as bad as total logging’: forests and environmental attitudes and behaviours in an anti-environmentalist countermovement 63 David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart and Valerie Berseth 5 Climate change scepticism in front-page Czech newspaper coverage: a one man show 84 Petr Ocelík PART IV VALUES, ATTITUDES AND PUBLIC OPINION 6 Understanding opposition to the environmental movement: the importance of dominant American values 108 Riley E. Dunlap 7 The effect of public opinion on environmental policy in the face of the environmental countermovement 133 Kerry Ard, Tiffany Williams and Paige Kelly 8 Anti-environment, or pro-livelihood? Dissecting environmental conflict and its key drivers in Northern New South Wales 153 Vanessa Bible PART V SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 9 Climate change counter movement organisations: an international deviant network? 173 Ruth E. McKie 10 Fossil networks and dirty power: the politics of decarbonisation in Australia 192 Adam Lucas 11 Regime of obstruction: fossil capitalism and the many facets of climate denial in Canada 216 William K. Carroll, Shannon Daub and Shane Gunster 12 The Koch Brothers and the climate change denial social movement 234 Patrick Doreian and Andrej Mrvar PART VI EXTRACTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 13 Neoliberal governance of environmentalism in the post-9/11 security era: the case of pipeline debates in Canada 248 S. Harris Ali 14 Fashioning anti-environmentalism in Turkey: the campaign against the Bergama movement 268 Hayriye Özen PART VII AGRICULTURE AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 15 Food sovereignty and anti-regulation from the left 284 James S. Krueger 16 Agrarian reform movement in the Betung Kerihun National Park: mobilisation of hunter–gatherer communities against nature protection in Kalimantan 304 Martin C. Lukas 17 Wind energy development and anti-environmentalism in Alberta, Canada 329 Aleksandra Afanasyeva, Debra J. Davidson and John Parkins PART VIII ETHNICITY AND RACE 18 The end of population-environmentalism: dissonance over human rights and societal goals 345 Pamela McMullin-Messier 19 The environmental state and the racial state in tension: does racism impede environmentalism? 365 Ian R. Carrillo PART IX OTHER SPHERES OF ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 20 Skin in the game: the struggle over climate protection within the US labor movement 381 Todd E. Vachon 21 Reflexive religious anti-environmentalism on Indigenous lands: decolonization and religious environmental organizations (REOs) in the Trans Mountain resistance, Canada 399 Victor W.Y. Lam 22 Anti-environmentalism in critical social science and new conservation 423 Helen Kopnina, Haydn Washington and Joe Gray PART X CONCLUSION 23 Moving forward in the study of anti-environmentalism: combining tools from different tool kits 440 David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart and Riley E. Dunlap Index