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 that challenge
the state or corporate sector. A series of case studies on
collective action campaigns from the EU, US and Asia is elaborated
in order to 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
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