Violent repression of environmental protests

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Table 1 Variables

Violence	Binary variable, coded yes if there was any kind of physical violence ranging from beatings to death
Empowerment	CIRI Index’s New Empowerment Rights Index^a
GDP per capita	World Bank Data^b
Industry protested against	Chemical industry, development (construction or land clearing), hydroelectric, logging, mining, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, water, petroleum, waste disposal, or wind energy
Geographic region	Africa
	Central Asia
	Europe
	Latin America
	Middle East
	North America
	Oceania
	Southeast Asia
	Southern Asia
	Taken from United Nations (2012)
Project funded with international money	Coded yes if there was any international funding (e.g., multinational corporate involvement or international aid)
Protest duration	Number of years
Documented human health hazards of surrounding community	Yes or no
Governance	Free, partly free, or not free
Involvement of marginalized groups (defined as economically, socially, and politically disempowered people)	Yes or no

^aCIRI data and documentation can be found here: http://www.humanrightsdata.com
^bWorld Bank Data can be found at: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD