Nimby Is Beautiful

Nimby Is BeautifulNIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics. This volume offers a different perspective. Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Chapters include

This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated

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whose open-hearted acceptance of life and love is among the most memorable and moving passages in English literature

some challenges and future directions in using airborne and high-resolution satellite sensors for precision agriculture are discussed

With a revealing new preface and stunning afterword

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This two-volume set presents the results of the excavation of two cemeteries at the site of Vronda Kavousi in East Crete: the cemetery of tholos tombs belong to the Subminoan to Protogeometric periods and the cemetery of enclosure graves with cremation burials belonging to the Late Geometric to Late Orientalizing periods

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