Coping with the “Nimby Syndrome”: Political issues related to the building of big infrastructures in liberal democracy countries

• Authors: Agostino Massa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The location and building of big hazardous infrastructures is a typical feature of the modernization process, in all countries and epochs. Since they are usually useful for a large region but their impact is very localized, the people living around the places where these facilities are active, or where their building is planned, very often organize and perform protest activities against them.

Starting from the presentation of recent data about these issues in Italy, considered as a good example of a liberal democracy country, the article is set to discuss their social and political consequences, focusing in particular on the so-called “NIMBY syndrome”, its development and the strategies elaborated by public and private actors to cope with it.

Keywords

EN

NIMBY groups; political participation; environmental protection; liberal; democracy

• Publisher: Akademia Sztuki Wojennej
• Journal: Security and Defence Quarterly
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 48-62

Dates

published

2019-03-28

Contributors

author

Agostino Massa

• University of Genova, Italy, Department of Political Sciences

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Identifiers

DOI

10.35467/sdq/103348