Environmental Ngos In World Politics

Author : Matthias Finger,Thomas Princen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134821624

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Environmental NGOs in World Politics by Matthias Finger,Thomas Princen Pdf

At a time when states are reactive, at best, to the global ecological crisis and when economic globalization seems to be significantly contributing to the acceleration of that crisis, environmental non-governmental orgainisations (NGOs) are proliferating. This book explains the key role of NGOs in an emerging world environmental politics, showing how NGOs act both as independent bargainers and as agents of social learning, to link biophysical conditions to the political realm at both the local and global levels. Throught the use of case studies the authors reveal the richness and diversity of NGO activity and the dificulty of the choices facing decision-makers in their attempts to protect the environment, seek new forms of governance and foster social environmental learning. The book generates questions that are central, not only to an understanding of NGO relations, but to the study of international environmental politics. Environmental NOGs in World Politics will be of great interest to upper level student sand scholars of both environmental politics and international relations. It will also appeal to environmental-policy professionals.

Author : Thomas Princen,Matthias Finger,Jack P. Manno,Margaret L. Clark,Routledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:643502333

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Environmental NGOS in World Politics by Thomas Princen,Matthias Finger,Jack P. Manno,Margaret L. Clark,Routledge Pdf

Author : Paul Kevin Wapner
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0791427897

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Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics by Paul Kevin Wapner Pdf

Based 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 : Helmut Breitmeier,Volker Rittberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020983982

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Environmental NGOs in an Emerging Global Civil Society by Helmut Breitmeier,Volker Rittberger Pdf

Author : Mark Imber,John Vogler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134827787

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The Environment and International Relations by Mark Imber,John Vogler Pdf

Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism to the significant connections between gender and global environmental change. The book goes on to consider a range of key international processes, discussing the monitoring and implementation of environmental agreements, the place of ideology in negotiations and the role of international organisations.

Author : Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441154729

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The Global Environment and World Politics by Elizabeth R. DeSombre Pdf

Environmental issues are increasingly important factors in world politics - just think of the intense speculation over the climate change discussions at the forthcoming G8 summit. The study of global environmental politics draws on a variety of academic traditions. It uses international relations theory to look at the concerns and actions of states, but has also had to find a variety of new concepts and perspectives in order to explain issues unique to the study of the environment. Here, DeSombre examines four important aspects of the field: international environmental cooperation; the relationship between the environment and security; the issues of science, uncertainty and risk; and the role of non-state actors. In the second half of the book she examines these issues through the use of case studies on specific problems facing the global environment, including global change, the politics of whaling, the protection of Amazonian biodiversity and acid rain in Europe and North America.

Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438411057

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Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance by Ronnie D. Lipschutz Pdf

What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues that neither world government nor green economics can do the job. Governmental regulations often are resisted by those whose behavior they are intended to change, and markets—even green ones—look to profits more than to protection. What will be needed, Lipschutz believes, is not global management but political action through community- and place-based organizations and projects. People acting together locally can have a cumulative impact on environmental quality that is significant, long lasting, and widespread. The comparative case studies of environmental activism in Northern California, Hungary, and Indonesia (the latter written by Judith Mayer) illustrate one of the central premises of this book: that local action is linked increasingly to globe-spanning networks of knowledge and practice, in what Lipschutz calls global civil society. The result is a system of governance that is both local and global, to which states and international organizations are turning increasingly for help and advice.

Author : Michele M. Betsill,Elisabeth Corell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262524766

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NGO Diplomacy by Michele M. Betsill,Elisabeth Corell Pdf

Provides 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 : Lorraine M. Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN : UOM:39076001936041

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The Global Politics of the Environment by Lorraine M. Elliott Pdf

What kinds of international institutions are best suited to dealing with global environmental problems? How can we address the crisis of state capacity? What role should non-state actors have in environmental governance? Why are women and indigenous peoples still marginalized in global environmental politics? What are the consequences of the global ecological crisis for economic and security policies? The Global Politics of the Environment makes sense of the often seemingly irreconcilable ideas behind answers to these questions. It focuses throughout on the tensions between mainstream strategies, which seek to build support for reforms through existing institutions, and radical critiques, which argue that environmental degradation is a symptom of a dysfunctional world order that must itself be transformed if we are to meet the challenge of saving the planet.

Author : Bas Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015045613638

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The Political Influence of Global NGOs by Bas Arts Pdf

Author : Brian Doherty,Timothy Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317968597

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Beyond Borders by Brian Doherty,Timothy Doyle Pdf

Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like transnational corporations have flourished. But it is not just business which increasingly bypasses these traditional boundaries. Environmental groups are also moving though this transnational space, and their politics are defined by such qualities as fluidity, ambiguity and rapid changes in identity, mission and structure. In this book, the politics of environmental movements are presented as particularly salient examples of these new phenomena. Drawing on fieldwork from Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Middle East, the contributors address a range of trans-national processes: efforts to construct common agendas transnationally; the diffusion of new repertoires of environmental protest; the role of environmental groups in the construction of new modes of environmental governance; how neo-liberalism affects local environmental activism; evidence of transnational influences and pressures on environmental politics in repressive regimes; and the dilemmas of defining questions of environmental justice and post-colonial environmental politics without suppressing the differences between environmentalism in different countries.

Author : Andrew Hurrell,Benedict Kingsbury
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015025217012

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The International Politics of the Environment by Andrew Hurrell,Benedict Kingsbury Pdf

This book brings together leading specialists to assess the strengths, limitations, and potential of the international political system for global environmental management.

Author : Peter Newell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521632501

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Climate for Change by Peter Newell Pdf

This volume provides a challenging explanation of the forces that have shaped the international global warming debate. It takes a novel approach to the subject by concentrating on the ways non-state actors--such as scientific, environmental and industry groups, as opposed to governmental organizations--affect political outcomes in global fora on climate change. It also provides insights into the role of the media in influencing the agenda. The book draws on a range of analytical approaches to assess and explain the influence of these nongovernmental organizations on the course of global climate politics. The book will be of interest to all researchers and policy makers associated with climate change, and will be used in university courses in international relations, politics, and environmental studies.

Author : M. Betsill,K. Hochstetler,D. Stevis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137338976

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Advances in International Environmental Politics by M. Betsill,K. Hochstetler,D. Stevis Pdf

This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. It demonstrates how the field of international environmental politics has evolved and identifies key questions, topics and approaches to guide future research.

Author : David Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135777852

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NGOs and Environmental Policies by David Potter Pdf

Covering 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.