Community Campaigns for Sustainable Living: Health, Waste & Protest in Civil Society (Advances in Ecopolitics, 7) - Hardcover

Liam Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780523807 ISBN 13: 9781780523804

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011

Synopsis

This book is based on research and observations undertaken for the author's doctoral research 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 waste to energy plants or incinerators. It is the only book with a sole focus on this aspect of Irish society during the Celtic Tiger boom which preceded the current economic downturn, and examines policy, population, development social issues and local and national electoral processes in detail at a time of immense change in the Republic of Ireland. As such, it provides a salient insight into the societal shifts which provide opportunities for social movements to oppose state or corporate plans which may be perceived to have human health or environmental risks associated with them.

About this title

About the Author:

Liam Leonard - Independent Academic Consultant, California, US.   

 Dr. Liam Leonard (BA; M. Phil; PhD) Researcher and International Academic Consultant, based in California, USA. Previously, Liam has been Chair of the Criminology Association of Ireland and former President of the Sociology Association of Ireland. He lectures Sociology, Criminology, Politics, Human Rights, Penology/Prison Studies, Sustainability and Environmental Issues, Social Movements, Social Capital, Professional Development and Equality & Diversity. The author/editor of over ten books and numerous journal articles, he is Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Books Series, the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Book Series (both with Emerald UK) and Founding Editor of the CRIMSOC Journal of Social Criminology.
Dr. Leonard has edited the 2011 Irish issue of the Prison Journal, as well as special issues of Environmental Politics and the Irish Journal of Sociology. Dr. Leonard was awarded the Sage Publishing Research Excellence Award in New York as well as the NAIRTL Research & Teaching Award in 2012, and has over twelve years experience as an academic and lecturer in the National University of Ireland and the Irish Institute of Technology sectors.
He has given papers at the European Sociology Association, European Criminology Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Group for Crime & Deviance and the Irish Sociology and Irish Criminology Conferences. Dr. Leonard sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Prison Journal and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. Since June 2013, Dr. Leonard has lived in Orange County, California, where he edits the SOC: Sociology in Orange County resource page.
        

Review:

Leonard (business and humanities, Institute of Technology, Ireland) provides a case study of national and regional campaigns against Irish government's Regional Waste Management Plans and corporate efforts to deploy waste incinerators or dumps in different parts of Ireland. Based on the author's PhD thesis, the study focuses primarily on the western Irish city of Galway and traces the mobilization and processes that emerged to counter the government's plans. Essentially, the author offers sharp insights into societal shifts that generate movements to oppose state or corporate plans which might be considered health or environmental risks. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1780523807
• ISBN 13: 9781780523804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290