ABSTRACT
The waste crisis in Campania can be considered an icon of waste mismanagement in Europe. It has inspired a huge number of studies that have tried to unravel the complex problems involved, and which focus on specific aspects of this crisis. These include: the illegal trade of toxic waste between the Camorra and corporations across Italy and Europe (Fontana et al. 2008; Iacuelli 2007); the abuse of legal power by government, and the institutional responsibilities of waste mismanagement (Lucarelli 2007a, 2007b, 2007c; Raimondi 2007); the health impacts of landfill disposal facilities (Fazzo et al. 2008; Martuzzi et al. 2008; Senior and Mazza 2004; Comella 2007); the impacts of landfill sites on hydrogeological stability (de Medici 2007; Ortolani 2008); the criminal and institutional responsibilities in waste mismanagement (Rabitti 2008); the emergence of new forms of environmentalism, and the relations between society and nature in environmental conflicts (Armiero 2008); the role of activism in the Campania case (Musella 2008); the political implications of the crisis (Barbieri and Piglionica 2007), and the anti-democratic direction characterizing waste management in Campania since the early 1990s (D’Alisa et al. 2010).
