GOVT2614 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lake Pedder, Franklin Dam Controversy, Green Party
26 Jul 2018
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Week 2 touchstones: lake pedder & franklin dam. The pedder/gordon scheme changed the nature of environmental activism in australia through a movement from discrete meetings to major public campaigns, interstate branches and vibrant conservation organisations (buckman, 2008 ). Despite a major national political shift in social and environmental awareness, a lack of access to power and continued exclusion from bipartisian political agendas reinforces the dominance of economic reasoning within environmental issues. During construction a belief in the unviability of coal and nuclear alternatives, and an emphasis on the schemes cost benefits outweighed legal or environmental abuses. Pedder 2000 s goal for restoration similarly fails to provide any economic or political restoration benefits (crowley, Diversity within and between environmental movements provides both opportunities and challenges to environmental activism. Room for innovation without risk to the whole movement and within-movement diversity can be contrasted with limitations and costs associated with decentralised authority and biased participation (jensen-lee 2004).
