Nimby Is Beautiful : : Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World /

Nimby Is Beautiful : : Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World / / ed. by Carol Hager, Mary Alice Haddad.

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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, a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Gunter Jr., Mike,
Haddad, Mary Alice,
Hager, Carol,
Kanatsu, Takashi,
Ohlhorst, Dörte,
Poulos, Helen M.,
Schreurs, Miranda,
Sherman, Daniel J.,
lanta, Elizabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Haddad, Mary Alice,
Hager, Carol,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A New Look at NIMBY
  • CHAPTER 1 How do Grassroots Environmental Protests Incite Innovation?
  • CHAPTER 2 From NIMBY to Networks: Protest and Innovation in German Energy Politics
  • CHAPTER 3 NIMBY and YIMBY: Movements For and Against Renewable Energy in Germany and the United States
  • CHAPTER 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 States
  • CHAPTER 5 Protecting Cultural Heritage: Unexpected Successes for Environmental Movements in China and Russia
  • CHAPTER 6 The Dalian Chemical Plant Protest, Environmental Activism, and China’s Developing Civil Society
  • CHAPTER 7 Local Activism and Environmental Innovation in Japan
  • CHAPTER 8 From Backyard Environmental Advocacy to National Democratization: The Cases of South Korea and Taiwan
  • CONCLUSION NIMBY is Beautiful: How Local Environmental Protests Are Changing the World
  • Contributors
  • Index

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