This volume provides up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements, activism, and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements around the world, macrostructural, microstructural and social-psychological dimensions, current trends and prospects for social change.

1.Environmental Movements Worldwide Part 1: Environmental Movements Around the World 2. Environmental Movements in Western Europe: From globalization and institutionalization to a new model of radicalization in the 21st century? 3. Rhapsody in Green: Environmental Movements in Central Eastern Europe 4. The “Tar Wars” and Climate Justice Activism in North America: A Transboundary Movement Linking the U.S. and Canada 5. Geographies of Latin American social-environmental movements: Defending territories and lifeways in the face of violent extractivism 6. Environmental Movements in Asia: Divergent relationship with political liberalization 7. Middle East and North Africa: Civil Society and Environmental Activism in the Arab World 8. African environmental movements: Africans saving Africa themselves 9. Rising tides and dirty coal: The environmental movement in Oceania Part 2: Issues and Movement Sectors 10. Environmental Conservation 11. Anti-nuclear Movements in the US, Europe and Asia 12. Extractivism in the America’s Indigenous: The Land of Resisters 13. Climate Change Movements in the Global North 14. Animal Rights and Anti-Speciesism 15. Political Consumerism and Food Activism 16. Environmental justice and climate justice 17 Indigenous Movements Part 3: Macrostructural Conditions and Processes 18. Environmental Movements and Their Political Context 19. Mobilizing Environmental Experts and Expertise 20. From environmental (movement) organizations to the organizing of environmental collective action 21. Environmental and Animal Oriented Radicalization: walking a different path? 22. New forms of environmental movement institutionalization: Marketization and the politics of responsibility 23. Commercialization and environmental movements Part 4: Microstructural and Social-Psychological Dimensions 24. Social class and environmental movements 25. Political values and socialization in environmental movements 26. Social networks and recruitment for environmental movements 27. Framing environmental issues 28. Gender and environmental movements 29. Environmental Activism and Everyday Life Part 5: Consequences and Outcomes 30. Policy and legislative outcomes of environmental movements 31. Influence of Environmental Movements on Public Opinion and Attitudes: Do people’s movements move the people? 32. Environmental Movements and Scientific, Technological, and Industrial Change 33: Biographical Consequences of Environmental Activism Part 6: Environmental Movements in the Twenty-First Century 34. Youth and Environmental Activism 35. Environmental Movements and Digital Media 36 Green democracy 37. Neoliberalism and social-environmental movements in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash: Linking struggles against social, spatial and environmental inequality 38. The future of environmental movements

"A comprehensive, detailed and authoritative treatment of environmental movements world-wide by leading scholars. It is by far the most useful text on this subject for both students and researchers."Professor Brian Doherty, School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK"At a time when climate action is more important than ever, Grasso and Giugni offer a globally inclusive overview of environmental movements that highlights the often overlooked role of Indigenous, Global South, anti-capitalist, and youth-led movements."Janet A. Lorenzen, Associate Professor of Sociology, Willamette University, USA "This important collection paints a sophisticated picture of the many diverse environmental movements and forms of activism now found in every part of the planet. The impressive range of empirical cases and theoretical framings presented by a diverse group of scholars makes it is an invaluable resource for researchers and students who aspire to a truly interdisciplinary and global understanding of contemporary environmental politics."Sherilyn MacGregor, Department of Politics, The University of Manchester, UK"This exciting collection of critical scholarship on environmental movements is stunning in its breadth, depth, and sophistication. The contributors offer a range of new insights into the character, drivers, and consequences of those heterogenous, multiscalar, multigenerational, grassroots and institutionalized collectives that constitute the world’s environmental movements. If you are interested in an expansive reference source regarding how ordinary people concerned with our ecological futures are achieving social change in every corner of planet earth, this is the book for you."David N. Pellow, Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA"This handbook is the most comprehensive and variegated treatment of contemporary environmental movements around the world. It covers a broad range of aspects, including issues, political contexts, and movement outcomes. I strongly recommend it to every student and scholar who is interested in the stunning diversity and complexity of a terrain that only can be mapped by a collaborative endeavor of both specialists and comparativists."Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Social Science Center (WZB) Berlin, Germany