Nimby Is Beautiful

Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics. This volume offers a different perspective. Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Chapters include cases from Europe, North America, and Asia, engaging with the full political spectrum from established democracies to non-democratic countries. Regardless of political setting, NIMBY movements can have a positive and proactive role in generating innovative solutions to local as well as transnational environmental issues. Furthermore, those solutions are now serving as models for communities and countries around the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785335099

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Carol Hager is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Social Sciences at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Technological Democracy: Bureaucracy and Citizenry in the German Energy Debate (Michigan 1995) and has published articles in German Politics, German Studies Review, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

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“This new edited volume provides an innovative, empirically driven perspective on controversial facilities that will be of interest to many scholars, decision makers, and residents around the world. The volume's international perspective helps make its conclusions convincing and robust and it rests on a well developed set of theories and hypotheses.” · Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction: A New Look at NIMBYCarol HagerChapter 1. How Do Grassroots Environmental Protests Incite Innovation?Helen M. PoulosChapter 2. From NIMBY to Networks: Protest and Innovation in German Energy PoliticsCarol HagerChapter 3. NIMBY and YIMBY: Movements For and Against Renewable Energy in Germany and the United StatesMiranda Schreurs and Dörte OhlhorstChapter 4. Hell No We Won't Glow! How Targeted Communities Deployed an Injustice Frame to Shed the NIMBY Label and Defeat Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities in the United StatesDaniel J. ShermanChapter 5. Protecting Cultural Heritage: Unexpected Successes for Environmental Movements in China and RussiaElizabeth PlantanChapter 6. The Dalian Chemical Plant Protest, Environmental Activism, and China's Developing Civil SocietyMichael M. Gunter, Jr.Chapter 7. Local Activism and Environmental Innovation in JapanTakashi KanatsuChapter 8. From Backyard Environmental Advocacy to National Democratization: The Cases of South Korea and TaiwanMary Alice HaddadConclusion: NIMBY is Beautiful: How Local Environmental Protests Are Changing the WorldMary Alice HaddadIndex