Environmental activism and world civic politics /
Organized across national boundaries and with millions of supporters worldwide, transnational environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, and Friends of the Earth play a central role in the way the world addresses environmental issues. This book provides the most syste...
| Основен автор: | Wapner, Paul Kevin. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
℗♭1996.
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| Серия: |
SUNY series in international environmental policy and theory.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5294 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Environmental activism and world civic politics. |
| Резюме: |
Organized across national boundaries and with millions of supporters worldwide, transnational environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, and Friends of the Earth play a central role in the way the world addresses environmental issues. This book provides the most systematic and theoretically informed study to date of the strategies these organizations use to advance global environmental protection. 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. The theoretical import of this book is to bring the practice of world civic politics into sharp relief and generalize its significance beyond environmental affairs to explain the efforts of all NGOs in world politics. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 238 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-232) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585043396 9780585043395 |