1st Edition

Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure

Edited By Christopher Rootes, Liam Leonard Copyright 2010
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly. 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 on waste... Read more

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

Biography

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