The Spatial Properties of Radical Environmental Organizations in the UK: Do or Die!

ABSTRACT: Radical environmental groups and their members have a wide and varied agenda which often encompasses both local and global issues. In their efforts to call attention to environmental problems, communicate with like-minded groups, and mobilize support for their activities, radical environmental organizations also produce an enormous amount of text, which can be used to estimate the complex communications and task-based networks that underlie these organizations. Moreover, the tactics employed to garnish attention for these groups' agenda can range from peaceful activities such as information dissemination to violent activities such as fire-bombing buildings. To obtain these varied objectives, radical environmental organizations must harness their networks, which have an important spatial co

SUBMITTER: Almquist ZW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5127524 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature