environment
Protecting Pooh Corner
Nikki Parker and Simon Birrell (2007) describe the Friends of Pooh Corner campaign to stop private developers taking over ownership of an area valued by the local community. The short and successful campaign led to the area being managed as a bushland reserve for...
The forest protest protocol: An outbreak of participatory democracy
Aidan Ricketts (2000) examines how the North East Forest Alliance has successfully combined uncompromising direct action strategies in the form of blockades and occupations with sophisticated lobbying and litigation. Published in the Alternative Law Journal.
Anti whaling campaign in Australia
Rebecca Gray’s anti-whaling case study includes interviews with protagonists from the 1970s when this campaign dominated Australian environmental discourse.
For the Common Good: the Murray Darling Basin campaign
Mary Tinney. A Case Study of the Murray-Darling Water and Salinity Campaign of the Social Action Office
A history of the Australian environment movement
This book traces the development of the environment movement in Australia from the first visionaries who pressed for preservation of native fauna and for sanitation in cities, to a mass social movement that challenges the most powerful interests in society. The...