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Chapter 5 discusses how working-class and other disadvantaged groups are often left out of environmental decision-making processes, yet they have important knowledge and perspectives to offer. In this chapter I particularly refer to my activist experience.
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Bell, K. (2020). The Environmental Policy Influencers. In: Working-Class Environmentalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29519-6_5
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