TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gunter Jr,Mike
AU  - Haddad,Mary Alice
AU  - Hager,Carol
AU  - Kanatsu,Takashi
AU  - Ohlhorst,Dörte
AU  - Poulos,Helen M.
AU  - Schreurs,Miranda
AU  - Sherman,Daniel J.
AU  - lanta,Elizabeth
TI  - Nimby Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World 
SN  - 9781782386018
U1  - 333.72 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Environmental protection
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - NIMBY syndrome
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Environmental Studies (General), Sociology
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386025?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386025
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386025/original
ER  -