IMPACT OF GRASSROOTS CHALLENGES TO TRASH INCINERATORS IN NIGERIA
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IMPACT OF GRASSROOTS CHALLENGES TO TRASH INCINERATORS IN NIGERIA
The Impact of Grassroots Challenges on Trash Incinerators in Nigeria
When first proposed in our country in the 1970s, waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be great solutions to the expanding mountains of trash in our “throw-away” culture.
Trash incinerators, which promised to transform useless garbage into electricity while saving valuable landfill space, appeared to be the perfect response to a national need.
Within a decade, however, a grassroots anti-incineration campaign evolved as a thriving branch of the environmental movement. In Don’t Burn It Here, sociologists Edward Walsh, Rex Warland, and D. Clayton Smith analyse this grassroots movement via thorough investigations of the challenges surrounding bids to create eight municipal incineration facilities.
The eight case narratives at the centre of the book are similar to hundreds of others across the United States. The authors’ findings are based on interviews, focus group discussions, substantial newspaper archives, and questionnaire responses from individuals on all sides of the conflicts.
A final chapter looks at the similarities and differences between the three successful projects and the five failed ones. An overview of the history of the modern incinerator in the United States, as well as the emergence of a major national opposition movement, provides the necessary context.
Throughout the book, the authors make useful comparisons to other national movements seeking legal justice for deprived groups such as women and ethnic groups.
This investigation was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation’s Fund for Research in Dispute Resolution. The authors strive for a balanced presentation of all sides of the incineration disputes, providing new theoretical and methodological views on a new sort of collective action. They also contribute to bridging the gap between theory and empirical evidence in the social sciences.
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