Community campaigns for sustainable living [[electronic resource] ] : health, waste & protest in civil society / / by Liam Leonard

• Autore: Leonard Liam
• Pubblicazione: Bingley [England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.2417087; 363.72809417
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable living - Citizen participation; Green movement - Citizen participation
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: FRONT COVER; COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: HEALTH, WASTE & PROTEST IN CIVIL SOCIETY; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; DEDICATION; PREFACE; THE ANTI-TOXICS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; THE IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ANTI-TOXICS MOVEMENT; COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1. MOBILISING RESOURCES, EXPLOITING OPPORTUNITIES AND FRAMING ISSUES; 1.2. BACKGROUND TO THE CASE; 1.3. CASE STUDY METHODOLOGY IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; 1.4. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF A CASE STUDY APPROACH ; CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: MOBILISING INTERNAL RESOURCES AND EXPLOITING EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES 2.1. INTRODUCTION; 2.2. ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; 2.3. IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS; 2.4. THE NEW MIDDLE-CLASS PROFESSIONALS: MOBILISING INTERNAL RESOURCES; 2.5. THE EXTERNAL RESOURCES OF POS; 2.6. FRAMING THE EXTERNAL RESOURCES OF POS; 2.7. THE LIMITATIONS OF ACCESS TO POS IN A NEO-CORPORATIST AND CLIENTELIST POLITICAL SYSTEM; 2.8. STATE POLICY AND NEO-CORPORATISM; 2.9. THE 'PARADOX' OF NEO-CORPORATISM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS; 2.10. NIMBYISM, ECOPOPULISM AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT ; 2.11. THE US ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS: FRAMING ISSUES OF HEALTH, DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT AND NIMBYISM 2.12. CONCLUSION: MOBILISING INTERNAL RESOURCES AND EXPLOITING EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES; CHAPTER 3 THE EVOLUTION OF POS: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE MOBILISATION AND FRAMING OF COMPARATIVE CASES; 3.1. INTRODUCTION - THE TWO PHASES OF MULTINATIONAL-LED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EMERGENT CONSUMERISM AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES: 1958-2005; 3.2. THE 1990's ECONOMIC BOOM: THE 'CELTIC TIGER'; CHAPTER 4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE'S WASTE POLICY FRAMEWORK; 4.1. INTRODUCTION: THE STATE AND WASTE ; 4.2. WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY 4.3. THE POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE OF A DYNAMIC POLICY DISCOURSE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION; 4.4. CONCLUSION: THE STATE'S RESPONSE TO THE WASTE CRISIS: THE CREATION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICIES; NOTE; CHAPTER 5 FRAMING PERSPECTIVES ON WASTE MANAGEMENT: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCE MOBILISATION IN GSE'S CASE; 5.1. INTRODUCTION; 5.2. THE MOBILISATION OF WIDER SUPPORT FOR GSE; 5.3. CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6 THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT FRAME; 6.1. INTRODUCTION; 6.2. LOCAL CONCERNS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT ; 6.3. POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT 6.4. CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7 THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT FRAME IN THE 2002 GENERAL ELECTION; 7.1. INTRODUCTION: THE SHIFTING DYNAMIC OF POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES; 7.2. BUILD UP TO THE ELECTION: JANUARY 2002; 7.3. THE GSE EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING: EMERGING TENSIONS; 7.4. MENLO PARK HOTEL DEBATE, 28 APRIL 2002: THE PARTIES SET OUT THEIR POSITION ON INCINERATION; 7.5. THE PARTY'S ELECTION MANIFESTOS: REJECTION OF INCINERATION; 7.6. ELECTION OUTCOME ; 7.7. GSE SINCE THE GENERAL ELECTION: POLITICAL CLOSURE AND RESTRICTIONS OF ACCESS TO POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is based on research and observations undertaken for the author's PhD thesis at the National University of Ireland, and represents a case study of national and regional campaigns against both the Irish state's Regional Waste Management Plans and the corporate sector's attempts to develop waste incinerators or dumps in various parts of Ireland. This book provides an in depth account of the mobilizing patterns and framing processes of community campaigns which emerged in the wake of the Irish state's introduction of regional plans for waste management, which included plans for municipal
• Titolo autorizzato: Community campaigns for sustainable living
• ISBN: 1-283-35483-7; 9786613354839; 1-78052-381-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460981803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in ecopolitics ; ; v. 7.