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    Nimby Is Beautiful : Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World (2015)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781782386025
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 236 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Environmental Studies
    Abstract: 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.
    Description / Table 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 --
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    Sustainable Development : An Appraisal from the Gulf Region (2014)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781782383727
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 572 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 19
    Keywords: Environmental Studies
    Abstract: With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century.  This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world's insatiable CO2 emitting energy demands, and has built unsustainable conurbations with water supplies dependent on energy hungry desalination plants and deep aquifers pumped beyond natural replenishment rates. Sustainable Development has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America -- including social and natural scientists, environmentalists and economists, architects and planners -- to discuss topics such as sustainable natural resource use and urbanization, industrial and technological development, economy and politics, history and geography. 
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Forward -- Shaikha Al-Misnad -- Introduction: Sustainable Development in the Gulf: Some Introductory Remarks -- Paul Sillitoe -- Chapter 1. Societal Change and Sustainability within the Central Plateau of Iran: An Archaeological Viewpoint -- Mark Manuel, Robin Coningham, Gavin Gillmore and Hassan Fazeli -- PART I: PLANNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 2. Qatar National Vision 2030: Advancing Sustainable Development -- Trudy Tan, Aziza Al-Khalaqi and Najla Al-Khulaifi -- Chapter 3. The Qatar National Master Plan -- Khondker Rahman -- Chapter 4. The State of Qatar: Along the Way to Sustainable Development -- Bahaa Darwish -- Chapter 5. Charting the Emergence of Environmental Legislation in Qatar: A Step in the Right Direction or Too Little Too Late? -- Wesam Al Othman and Sarah F. Clarke -- PART II: ENERGY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES -- Chapter 6. Sustainable Energy: What Futures for Qatar? -- Thomas Henfrey -- Chapter 7. Money Rain: The Resource Curse in Two Oil and Gas Economies -- Emma Gilberthorpe, Sarah F. Clarke and Paul Sillitoe -- Chapter 8. Islam and Sustainable Economic Development -- Rodney Wilson -- PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES -- Chapter 9. Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation -- Ben Campbell -- Chapter 10. Conservation and Sustainable Development: the Qatari and Gulf Region Experience -- Paul Sillitoe with Ali Alshawi -- Chapter 11. Promoting Sustainable Development in Marine Regions -- James Howard -- Chapter 12. Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability: Friends or Enemies? -- Nobuyuki Yamaguchi -- PART IV: URBAN AND HEALTH ISSUES -- Chapter 13. From Pearling to Skyscrapers: The Predicament of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism in Contemporary Gulf Cities. -- Ali A. Alraouf and Sarah F. Clarke -- Chapter 14. How the City Grows: Urban Growth and Challenges to Sustainable Development in Doha, Qatar -- Andrew M. Gardner -- Chapter 15. Sustainable Waste Management in Qatar: Charting the Emergence of an Integrated Approach to Solid Waste Management -- Sarah Clarke with Salah Almannai -- Chapter 16. Sustainable Development and Health: From Global to Local Agenda -- Mylène Riva, Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark Eggerman -- PART V: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES -- Chapter 17. Exploring Collaborative Research Methodologies in the Pursuit of Sustainable Futures -- Gina Porter -- Chapter 18. On the Importance of Culture in Sustainable Development -- Serena Heckler -- Chapter 19. People, Social Groups, Cultural Practices: From Venn Diagrams to Alternative Paradigms for Sustainable Development -- Fadwa El Guindi -- Chapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Values: Environmental Contradictions in Qatari Society -- Kaltham Al-Ghanim -- Conclusion: A Doha Undeclaration, Puzzling over Sustainable Development with Indigenous Knowledge -- Paul Sillitoe -- List of Contributors -- Index --
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