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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782386018
  • 9781782386025
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  • 333.72 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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