Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self-determination as resistance : re-asserting control over natural resources in Colombia / Charlotte Christiaens, Lucy Mears, Andy Whitmore and Hannibal Rhoades -- Petro-politics and local natural resource protection : grassroots opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska / James Ordner -- Navigating state-led extractivism in Ecuador and Russia : fluid identities and agendas of socio-environmental movements / Denisse Rodríguez and Julia Loginova -- Beyond winning and losing : the rise of the social movement against mega-mining projects in northern Greece / Citizens' Coordinating Committee of Ierissos Against Gold-Copper Mining -- Land rights and justice in neoliberal Mozambique : the case of Afungi community relocations / Kate Symons -- Possibilities and pitfalls of environmental justice action : learning from Rosia Montana and Yaigojé Apaporis anti-mining struggles / Ioana Florea and Hannibal Rhoades -- Egyptian environmentalism and urban grassroots mobilisation / Noura Wahby -- Landscape and outdoor domestic space towards food sovereignty and environmental regeneration : approaches from Mozambique and Latin America / Céline Veríssimo and Leo Name -- Access to information and the construction of sustainability discourse in the case of the Bus Rapid Transit Transolímpica, in Rio de Janeiro / Camila Nobrega Rabello Alves -- The political ecology of urban space in transition / Sam Beck -- Environmental justice claims and dimensions in anti-megaproject campaigns in Europe : the case of the forum against unnecessary and imposed megaprojects / Alfred Burballa-Noria -- Isolation and abstraction to tackle deforestation : the problem of theory as a practical problem in environmental issues / Mario Hernandez-Trejo -- Natural capital accounting (NCA) : roles in corporate environmental stewardship / Les Levidow --Offsetting for whom? -- Nature is our right : framing a new nature protection debate in Europe / Sandra Bell and Friedrich Wulf -- Nature's rights and earth jurisprudence : a new ecologically-based paradigm for environmental law / Mumta Ito and Massimiliano Montini -- Nature, rights and political movements / Larry Lohmann -- The commons as organizing infrastructure : indigenous collaborations and post-neoliberal visions in Ecuador / Tristan Partridge -- Illegal camping on "stolen native land" / Amanda K. Winter -- Gerontocracies of affect: how the "politics of austerity" have reshaped elder environmental radicalism / Mary Gearey -- Humans in the landscape : low-impact development as a response to the neoliberal environmental agenda / Julyan Levy -- The right to nature : lessons learned and future directions / Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez and Elia Apostolopoulou.