Environmentalism in Ireland: Ecological Modernisation versus Populist Rural Sentiment

Liam Leonard

Environmental Values, 2007, vol. 16, issue 4, pages 463-483

Abstract: The recent phase of economic growth in the Republic of Ireland has led to an increase in industrial and infrastructural development across the island. One offshoot of this accelerated growth has been a rise in community based environmental movements, as environmentalists and concerned communities have come to mobilise campaigns to protect local communities and hinterlands. This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community's lands.

Keywords: Ecological modernisation; ecopopulism; rural sentiment; anthropocentric; ecocentric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007

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