Offers new perspective on "Not in my Back Yard" protests. Demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Argues that NIMBY movements can have a positive and proactive role in generating innovative solutions to local as well as transnational environmental issues.
Offers new perspective on "Not in my Back Yard" protests. Demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Argues that NIMBY movements can have a positive and proactive role in generating innovative solutions to local as well as transnational environmental issues.
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.
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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
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
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