Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rootes, Christopher; Leonard, Liam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly. This book sheds new light on the structures of political opportunity that confront environmental movements that challenge the state or corporate sector.

This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317991229
• Artikelnr.: 57100177

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Environmental Movements, Waste and Waste Infrastructure: An Introduction
Christopher Rootes 2. Environmental Movements and Campaigns against Waste
Infrastructure in the United States Christopher Rootes and Liam Leonard 3.
When Time is on Their Side: Determinants of Outcomes in New Siting and
Existing Contamination Cases in Louisiana Melissa Kemberling and J. Timmons
Roberts 4. More Acted upon than Acting? Campaigns against Waste
Incinerators in England Christopher Rootes 5. A Burning Issue? Governance
and Anti-Incinerator Campaigns in Ireland, North and South Liam Leonard,
Peter Doran and Honor Fagan 6. Wasting Energy? Campaigns against
Waste-to-Energy Sites in France Darren McCauley 7. Grassroots Mobilisations
against Waste Disposal Sites in Greece Iosif Botetzagias and John
Karamichas 8. Movements, Mobilities and the Politics of Hazardous Waste
Su-Ming Khoo and Henrike Rau