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| Title |
Violent repression of environmental protests
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|---|---|
| Published in |
SpringerPlus, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40064-016-1816-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Helen M. Poulos, Mary Alice Haddad |
| Abstract |
As global sea levels and natural resource demands rise, people around the world are increasingly protesting environmental threats to their lives and livelihoods. What are the conditions under which these peaceful environmental protests are violently repressed? This paper uses the random forest algorithm to conduct an event analysis of grassroots environmental protests around the world. Utilizing a database of 175 grassroots environmental protests, we found that: (1) a large proportion (37 %) of the protests involved violent repression; (2) most of the violence (56 %) was directed against marginalized groups; and (3) violence was geographically concentrated the global south in Latin America and Asia. The primary predictors of violence were political empowerment, GDP per capita, industry type, the presence of marginalized groups, and geographic region. Our analysis reveals a complex relationship between governance, resource extraction, and international funding that often resulted in human rights violations against marginalized groups. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 67% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 28 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 5 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 8 | 28% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 17% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 7 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2018.
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#1,118,017
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Outputs from SpringerPlus
#53
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#20,405
of 297,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age from SpringerPlus
#3
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