Anti-Fracking Movements

Damien Short is Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and a Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth. He has also worked with a variety of NGOs including Amnesty International, War on Want, Survival International, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; and with a range of campaign groups including Eradicating Ecocide, Biofuelwatch, Climate Justice Collective and the UK Tar Sands Network. He currently advises local anti-fracking groups in the UK and county councils on the human rights implications of fracking. Malayna Raftopoulos is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

• Part I: Overview 1. Introduction 2. Bridging the Gap Between Green Criminology and Social Movement Studies PART II Case Studies3. ‘Much More than NIMBYism’: the UK’s Anti-Fracking Movement 4. Spain and the Case of the Basque Country 5. The Anti-Fracking Movement and the ‘Ban’ in Germany 6. Argentina and the Vaca Muerta 7. Colombia and the Case of San Martín PART III Discussion and Conclusion8. Comparison of Case Studies 9. Conclusion IndexBibliography