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community-based ecological resistance movements  

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  • Community-based ecological resistance movements emerge within struggles against environmental degradation that disturbs the symbiotic relationship between community and environment. These movements are devoted to the prevention of community life from environmentally harmful activities and to the investigation of means to mobilize local capabilities in resisting these activities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Community-Based Ecological Resistance Movements]

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