NIMBY is beautiful
Subtitle: cases of local activism and environmental innovation around the world
By: edited by Carol Hager and Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781782386018; 9781782386025
Subjects: Environmentalism; Case studies; Environmental protection; NIMBY syndrome; Protest movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a new look at NIMBY / Carol Hager; title: How do grassroots environmental protests incite innovation? / Helen M. Poulos; title: From NIMBY to networks : protest and innovation in German energy politics / Carol Hager; title: NIMBY and YIMBY : movements for and against renewable energy in Germany and the United States / Miranda Schreurs and Dörte Ohlhorst; title: 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; title: Protecting cultural heritage : unexpected successes for environmental movements in China and Russia / Elizabeth Plantan; title: The Dalian chemical plant protest, environmental activism, and China's developing civil society / Michael M. Gunter, Jr; title: Local activism and environmental innovation in Japan / Takashi Kanatsu; title: From backyard environmental advocacy to national democratization : the cases of South Korea and Taiwan / Mary Alice Haddad; title: Conclusion : NIMBY is beautiful : how local environmental protests are changing the world / Mary Alice Haddad.