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

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gunter Jr., Mike (Contribuidor), Haddad, Mary Alice (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hager, Carol (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kanatsu, Takashi (Contribuidor), Ohlhorst, Dörte (Contribuidor), Poulos, Helen M. (Contribuidor), Schreurs, Miranda (Contribuidor), Sherman, Daniel J. (Contribuidor), lanta, Elizabeth (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Temas:
Environmental protection > Case studies.
Environmentalism > Case studies.
NIMBY syndrome > Case studies.
Protest movements > Case studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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