Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure
As rates of consumption grow, so has the problem of waste management. National and local waste authorities seek to manage such problems through the implementation of state regulation and construction of waste infrastructure, including landfills and incinerators. These, however, are undertaken in a context of increasing supra-state regulatory frameworks and directives, and of increasing activity by multi-national corporations, and are increasingly contested by activists in the affected communities.
Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure examines the structures of political opportunity that confront environmental movements that challenge the state or corporate sector. Case studies on collective action campaigns from the EU, US and Asia illuminate the similarities and differences between protests against waste incinerators and other waste management infrastructure projects within different states. Several contributions share a concern about cross-border or trans-national waste flows. Each case study looks beyond its initial local frame of reference and interrogates assumptions about NIMB Yism or localism, demonstrating the wider linkages and networks established by both grassroots campaigns and state and multinational agencies.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.
Christopher Rootes is Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Liam Leonard is Lecturer in Sociology, Criminology and Human Rights at the Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland.
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Iosif Botetzagias is a Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Policy, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Greece. Publications include The influence of social capital on willingness to pay for the environment, European Societies, 11 (4) (2009) and Accounting for difficulties faced in materializing a Transnational ENGO Conservation Network Global Environmental Politics, 10 (1) (2010).
Peter Doran is a Lecturer in sustainable development, environment and planning in the School of Law, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. A senior editor and writer on the Earth Negotiations Bulletin for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, his publications include: The Global Justice Movement and Sustainable Development, International Journal of Green Economics 1(1) 2006.
Honor Fagan is a Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her publications include: Globalization and Human Security: An Encyclopaedia (Praeger, 2008) (co-edited with R. Munck) and (co-authored with M. Murray) Green Ireland? Waste in its Social Context in B. Bartley and R. Kitchin (eds.) Understanding Contemporary Ireland (Pluto, 2007).
John Karamichas is a lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Recent publications include Accessing the Institutions: The Road to the Socialist-Green Alliance in Spain, Mediterranean Politics 13(3), (2008).
Melissa Kemberling (Toffolon-Weiss) is a Senior Epidemiologist at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage, Alaska. Her publications include Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (co-author), and Alaska Native Parental Attitudes on Cervical Cancer, HPV and the HPV Vaccine, International Journal for Circumpolar Health 67(4) (2008).
Su-ming Khoo is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway. Her publications include Globalization, terror and the future of development in M. Mullard (ed.) Globalization, Citizenship and the War on Terror (Edward Elgar, 2007), and Development Education, Citizenship and Civic Engagement, Policy and Practice, 1 (3) (2006).
Liam Leonard is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland. Publications include Politics Inflamed: Campaigns against Incineration in Ireland (Greenhouse Press, 2005), Green Nation (Greenhouse Press, 2006), The Environmental Movement in Ireland (Springer, 2008) and The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice (ed., with John Barry) (Emerald).
Darren McCauley is a Lecturer in European and Environmental Politics at Queens University Belfast, and a research associate of the Queens Institute for a Sustainable World. His contribution was partly written during his time as Lecturer in Environmental Geography at Trinity College Dublin.
Henrike Rau is a lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her publications include: Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference (ed., with R. Edmondson) (Peter Lang, 2008).
Timmons Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies and Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, USA. Co-authored publications include Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline (Cambridge University Press, 2001), A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy (MIT Press, 2007), and Greening Aid? (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Christopher Rootes is Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Movements, University of Kent, Canterbury, England. His publications include Environmental Movements: local, national and global (ed.) (Cass, 1999); Environmental Protest in Western Europe (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2003/7) and Acting Locally: Local environmental mobilizations and campaigns
