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This chapter analyses the long-running protests over the logging of Tasmania forests for Asian markets and more recent conflict over fish farming in Australia’s island state to identify and analyse transnational elements and their impacts. Applying the concept of mediatised environmental conflict as an analytical tool, this chapter highlights evolving features within environmental protest at the sites where resources are produced and sourced, identifying how interactions between the spheres of conflict display both recognisable patterns and new dynamics in the face of global influences.
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Lester, L. (2019). Industrialising the Forests and the Fishes. In: Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest. Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27723-9_5
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