Protecting Environment
Author: Satish Kumar
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
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Author: Satish Kumar
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2002-01-08
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0309076188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and prepared proceedings of this workshop, highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by NGOs in Russia and the United States.
Author: Raymond L. Bryant
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0300132832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today’s world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides important new perspectives on the strategic thinking of NGOs, the way they identify themselves, and how they behave. Raymond L. Bryant develops a novel theoretical perspective around the concept of moral capital and assesses that concept through in-depth case studies of NGOs in the Philippines. The book’s focus is on perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic and how such perceptions can translate into social power. Bryant examines the ambiguous qualities of NGO strategizing, the ways in which the quest for moral capital is bedeviled by the need to compromise with political and economic elites, and the possibilities for NGOs to achieve political goals as moral leaders.
Author: David Potter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-28
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1135777853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the work of non-governmental organizations in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and business organizations, this study looks at field research in Asia and Africa, and relates it to theoretical issues in the academic field.
Author: Michele M. Betsill
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007-10-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0262524767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on climate change, biosafety, desertification, whaling, and forests. Over the past thirty years nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have played an increasingly influential role in international negotiations, particularly on environmental issues. NGO diplomacy has become, in the words of one organizer, an “international experiment in democratizing intergovernmental decision making.” But there has been little attempt to determine the conditions under which NGOs make a difference in either the process or the outcome of international negotiations. This book presents an analytic framework for the systematic and comparative study of NGO diplomacy in international environmental negotiations. Chapters by experts on international environmental policy apply this framework to assess the effect of NGO diplomacy on specific negotiations on environmental and sustainability issues. The proposed analytical framework offers researchers the tools with which to assess whether and how NGO diplomats affect negotiation processes, outcomes, or both, and through comparative analysis the book identifies factors that explain variation in NGO influence, including coordination of strategy, degree of access, institutional overlap, and alliances with key states. The empirical chapters use the framework to evaluate the degree of NGO influence on the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations on global climate change, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, negotiations within the International Whaling Commission that resulted in new management procedures and a ban on commercial whaling, and international negotiations on forests involving the United Nations, the International Tropical Timber Organization, and the World Trade Organization. Contributors Steinar Andresen, Michele M. Betsill, Stanley W. Burgiel, Elisabeth Corell, David Humphreys, Tora Skodvin
Author: Helmut Breitmeier
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Kevin Wapner
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780791427897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on case studies of three transnational groups, it argues that in addition to lobbying governments, activists operate within and across societies to effect widespread change. They work through transnational social, economic, and cultural networks to alter corporate practices, educate vast numbers of people, pressure multilateral development banks, and shift standards of good conduct. Wapner argues that because this activity takes place outside the formal arena of inter-state politics, environmental activists practice "world civic politics"; they politicize global civil society.
Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 24
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDirectory of nongovernmental organizations active in environmental protection in Asia and Pacific - includes membership, publications, information centres, training courses and other activities.
Author: United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 54
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