Abstract
This chapter presents the conceptual underpinnings of the book. The conduct and potential implications of environmental conflict occurring across borders and between nations and regions have been well recognised. However, extensive and detailed evidence of precisely how governments, industry, activists and the news media respond to environmental issues that are manifested transnationally is lacking. Nonetheless, this is the arena in which environmental futures are being determined. The chapter outlines three concepts—mediatised environmental conflict, social licence to operate and the transnational public sphere—to help provide insight into emerging spaces of environmental protest.
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Lester, L. (2019). Protest and Publics. In: Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest. Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27723-9_3
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