Does shareholder activism help or hinder shareholder value enhancement? : empirical evidence from the UK [PDF]
, 2009 Shareholder activism has increasingly become a widespread value enhancement strategy for institutional investors in the UK. However, thus far only one paper has reported a clinical study to analyse its impact on target firms (Becht et al, 2008) in ...
Broadhurst, Timothy
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RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2021 The research focuses on the analysis of the English language media discourse dedicated to the problem of environmental activism in the present-day emerging countries of Russia, China and other Southeast Asian states.
Alla V. Guslyakova +4 more
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Citizen Environmental Activism in China: Legitimacy, Alliances, and Rights-based Discourses
The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2012 While China’s environmental problems have been well publicized to a global audience, its citizens’ environmental activism is lesser known. This paper assesses the major environmental activism that Chinese environmental Non-Government Organizations and ...
Setsuko Matsuzawa
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Not victims, but fighters: A global overview on women's leadership in anti-mining struggles
Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 While it is known that women have a strong presence in struggles for Environmental Justice, there is a lack of knowledge about their role in them, particularly in struggles opposing mining projects. We aim to fill this gap by undertaking the first global
Francisco Venes +2 more
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What Motivates Student Environmental Activists on College Campuses? An In-Depth Qualitative Study
Social Sciences, 2017 Public concern for the natural environment continues to grow as complex environmental problems emerge. One avenue where concern for the environment has been expressed is through activism.
Cadi Y. Fung, Ellis Adjei Adams
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Environmental activism, environmental politics, and representation: the framing of the british environmental activist movement [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis explores the relationship between environmental activism, environmental politics and the mainstream media. In exploring the power relations between government, activists and the media, this work draws on Foucauldian theories of ...
Newlands, Maxine
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Aesthetic education and environmental activism [PDF]
Studia z Teorii WychowaniaThis essay explores environmental aesthetics as a framework for rethinking aesthetic education in general schools, highlighting its potential to foster active engagement, ethical awareness, and ecological responsibility among students.
Alicja Lisiecka
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“Defend the Oceans!” Ghostnet Art and Environmental Activism of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders [PDF]
Pacific Geographies, 2021 Ghostnet art is an art movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that has been gaining enthusiastic followers worldwide in recent years, not only because of its impressive artistic design, but equally because of the ...
Walda-Mandel, Stephanie
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Emplaced activism: what-if environmental education attuned to young people’s entanglements with post-industrial landscapes? [PDF]
, 2022 Cultures that recognise the many forces and memories held in landscape can make important contributions to climate emergency. We argue there is another group which has knowledge to call upon; young people growing up in post-industrial places.
Ivinson, Gabrielle Mary, Renold, EJ
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E-REA, 2021 “You are stealing our future in front of our very eyes.” These words from Greta Thunberg encapsulate two prominent themes in the global wave of environmental activism since 2018 and its discourse. First, climate change is represented as a “crisis” or an “
Sarah PICKARD
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