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Overcoming NIMBYism: Promoting Sustainability Against Corporate Interests

Explore challenges and solutions in promoting large-scale sustainable projects, overcoming local opposition and corporate influence. Learn about valuing ecosystem services and the impact of economic development on renewable energy support.

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Overcoming NIMBYism: Promoting Sustainability Against Corporate Interests

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  1. The use of eminent domain to appropriate private land for public use often encounters “NIMBYism,” or local opposition to a project despite its broader benefits. Large scale sustainability projects must overcome this opposition if they are to succeed

  2. Corporate money in politics, through lobbying, can have an undue influence on regulation, making it more difficult to encourage sustainable projects. By giving a price to envoronmental degradation, through ‘ecosystem services,’ people can better understand the stakes involved.

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