ABSTRACT
The environmental movement has been described as ‘‘the most comprehensive and infl uential movement of our time’’ (Castells 1997: 67), representing for the ‘post-industrial’ age what the workers’ movement was for the industrial period. Yet while strike statistics have been collected for many countries since the late nineteenth century (van der Velden 2007), 1 until the present no administrative body tracks the occurrence and frequency of mobilizations or protests related to environmental issues, in the way that the World Labour Organization tracks the occurrence of strike action (https://laborsta.ilo.org/) and thus it is impossible to properly document the prevalence and incidence of contentious activity related to environmental issues or to track the ebb and fl ow of protest activity.
