Grassroots environmental governance: community engagements with industry

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations.

However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways.

Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. 'Grassroots Environmental Governance' presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research.

Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development.