Nimby Is Beautiful

Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-601-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hager, Carol

Haddad, Mary Alice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction: A New Look at NIMBY

Carol Hager

Chapter 1. How Do Grassroots Environmental Protests Incite Innovation?

Helen M. Poulos

Chapter 2. From NIMBY to Networks:  Protest and Innovation in German Energy Politics

Carol Hager

Chapter 3. NIMBY and YIMBY:  Movements For and Against Renewable Energy in Germany and the United States

Miranda Schreurs and Dörte Ohlhorst

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

Daniel J. Sherman

Chapter 5. Protecting Cultural Heritage:  Unexpected Successes for Environmental Movements in China and Russia

Elizabeth Plantan

Chapter 6. The Dalian Chemical Plant Protest, Environmental Activism, and China's Developing Civil Society

Michael M. Gunter, Jr.

Chapter 7. Local Activism and Environmental Innovation in Japan

Takashi Kanatsu

Chapter 8. From Backyard Environmental Advocacy to National Democratization: The Cases of South Korea and Taiwan

Mary Alice Haddad

Conclusion: NIMBY is Beautiful:  How Local Environmental Protests Are Changing the World

Mary Alice Haddad

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hager, Carol
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.

Haddad, Mary Alice
Mary Alice Haddad is Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.  Her publications include Politics and Volunteering in Japan (Cambridge 2007), Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge 2012), and articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Journal of Asian Studies, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

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.