Mary Alice HaddadMary Alice Haddad is professor of government, East Asian studies, and environmental studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Envionmentalists (MIT, 2021), and Environmental Politics in East Asia (Cambridge, 2023); and coeditor of NIMBY Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World (Berghahn Books, 2015) and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (Washington, 2020). Read More Read Less