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 management, and of increasing activity by
multi-national corporations, and are increasingly contested by
activists in the affected communities. Environmental Movements and
Waste Infrastructure sheds new light on the structures of political
opportunity that confront environmental movements and challenge the
state or corporate sector. A series of case studies on collective
action campaigns from the EU, US and Asia illuminate the
similarities and differences between anti-incinerator protests
within different states. Several contributions share a concern
about cross-border or transnational waste flows. Each case study
looks beyond its initial local frame of reference and goes on to
interrogate assumptions about NIMBYism 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
General
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