When first proposed in this country during the 1970s, wastetoenergy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be ideal solutions to the growing mounds of trash in our "throwaway" society. Promising to convert useless garbage into electricity while saving precious landfill space, trash incinerators seemed perfectly timed to respond to a national need. Within a decade, however, a grassroots antiincineration movement emerged as a vibrant offshoot of the environmental movement. In Dont Burn It Here, sociologists Edward Walsh, Rex Warland, and D. Clayton Smith examine this grassroots movement through detailed analyses of the struggles surrounding proposals to build eight municipal incinerators in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. The eight case histories that form the heart of the book are comparable to hundreds of others across the U.S. The authors research is based on interviews, focus group discussions, extensive newspaper files, and questionnaire responses from participants on both sides of the conflicts. A final chapter examines the similarities and differences between the three successful projects and the five defeated ones. An overview of the history of the modern incinerator in the U.S. and the emergence of a major national opposition movement provides the necessary context, and throughout the book, the authors make useful comparisons to other national movements seeking legal justice for deprived collectivities such as women and ethnic groups. This project was supported by...

Binding: Paperback;314 pages; Publisher: Penn State University Press; Classification: RNB; Weight: 574 g; Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21

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