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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
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.
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.
