Original scientific paper
The Ecological Micro-crisis and the Urban Conflict: Case-study of Two Local Communities in Zagreb
Aleksandar Štulhofer
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
Presented, in the text are the findings of a survey involving two conflictuous situations of ecological protest — the local community »Božidar A džija« on whose territory a powerful transformer station has been built and the local community »Dr. Mladen Stojanović«, the participant in the notorious »Jelenovac case«.
The findings of the survey described do not indicate the existence of a consistent ecological awareness, but, on the other hand, an ecological susceptibility can be easily identified especially through the great bitterness the citizens expressed at their »initiative« meetings. The manifestation of the ecological reactions in both cases included also the fragments of a broader, mostly political, assessment of the ecological threat.
The locally established and usually limited ecological reaction is not to be taken as a deficiency. The global perspective is not necessarily a prerequisite for efficient local action, and each ecological-action experience provides at least part of the answer to the question what we should be doing here and now.
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155142
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Publication date:
30.6.1991.
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