FRONT COVER -- COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: HEALTH, WASTE & PROTEST IN CIVIL SOCIETY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- THE ANTI-TOXICS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- THE IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ANTI-TOXICS MOVEMENT -- COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. MOBILISING RESOURCES, EXPLOITING OPPORTUNITIES AND FRAMING ISSUES -- 1.2. BACKGROUND TO THE CASE -- 1.3. CASE STUDY METHODOLOGY IN SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- 1.4. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF A CASE STUDY APPROACH -- CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: MOBILISING INTERNAL RESOURCES AND EXPLOITING EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS -- 2.3. IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS -- 2.4. THE NEW MIDDLE-CLASS PROFESSIONALS: MOBILISING INTERNAL RESOURCES -- 2.5. THE EXTERNAL RESOURCES OF POS -- 2.6. FRAMING THE EXTERNAL RESOURCES OF POS -- 2.7. THE LIMITATIONS OF ACCESS TO POS IN A NEO-CORPORATIST AND CLIENTELIST POLITICAL SYSTEM -- 2.8. STATE POLICY AND NEO-CORPORATISM -- 2.9. THE 'PARADOX' OF NEO-CORPORATISM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS -- 2.10. NIMBYISM, ECOPOPULISM AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT -- 2.11. THE US ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS: FRAMING ISSUES OF HEALTH, DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT AND NIMBYISM -- 2.12. CONCLUSION: MOBILISING INTERNAL RESOURCES AND EXPLOITING EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES -- CHAPTER 3 THE EVOLUTION OF POS: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE MOBILISATION AND FRAMING OF COMPARATIVE CASES -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION - THE TWO PHASES OF MULTINATIONAL-LED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EMERGENT CONSUMERISM AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES: 1958-2005 -- 3.2. THE 1990s ECONOMIC BOOM: THE 'CELTIC TIGER' -- CHAPTER 4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE'S WASTE POLICY FRAMEWORK -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION: THE STATE AND WASTE -- 4.2. WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY.

4.3. THE POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE OF A DYNAMIC POLICY DISCOURSE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION -- 4.4. CONCLUSION: THE STATE'S RESPONSE TO THE WASTE CRISIS: THE CREATION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICIES -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 5 FRAMING PERSPECTIVES ON WASTE MANAGEMENT: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCE MOBILISATION IN GSE'S CASE -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. THE MOBILISATION OF WIDER SUPPORT FOR GSE -- 5.3. CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6 THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT FRAME -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. LOCAL CONCERNS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT -- 6.3. POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT -- 6.4. CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7 THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT FRAME IN THE 2002 GENERAL ELECTION -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION: THE SHIFTING DYNAMIC OF POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES -- 7.2. BUILD UP TO THE ELECTION: JANUARY 2002 -- 7.3. THE GSE EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING: EMERGING TENSIONS -- 7.4. MENLO PARK HOTEL DEBATE, 28 APRIL 2002: THE PARTIES SET OUT THEIR POSITION ON INCINERATION -- 7.5. THE PARTY'S ELECTION MANIFESTOS: REJECTION OF INCINERATION -- 7.6. ELECTION OUTCOME -- 7.7. GSE SINCE THE GENERAL ELECTION: POLITICAL CLOSURE AND RESTRICTIONS OF ACCESS TO POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE -- 7.8. CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION OF THE STUDY OF THE GSE CASE -- 8.1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GALWAY CASE STUDY -- 8.2. MOBILISATION OF INTERNAL RESOURCES -- 8.3. IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS -- POSTSCRIPT 1: THE GALWAY WATER CRISIS -- NOTES -- POSTSCRIPT 2: ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION AND IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION -- ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IMPLEMENTATION -- IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) -- REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- NEWSPAPER AND MEDIA SOURCES, AND INTERVIEWS -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.