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This article focuses on the political role of environmental collective action in Portugal. After a short historical-sociological overview of the political context within which the existing environmental group ‘industry’ emerged, particular emphasis is given to the formation of a new wave of environmental groups after the mid–1980s. Newly emerging environmental associations of this period blocked a green party strategy for the environmental movement. As a consequence, ‘old’ political ecology and protest action groups that had formed a fairly successful anti-nuclear movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s declined. Options for further mobilization of and by environmental associations were then shaped by changes in the political opportunity structure induced by the adhesion to the EC after 1986.
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Nave, J.G. (2001). Non-Governmental Groups and the State. In: Eder, K., Kousis, M. (eds) Environmental Politics in Southern Europe. Environment & Policy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0896-9_15
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