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...

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1. Verfasser:	Wapner, Paul (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Albany, NY State Univ. of New York Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:	SUNY series in international environmental policy and theory
Schlagworte:	Ecologische beweging Ecologisme Environnement - Protection - Associations Medio ambiente, Protección del Niet-gouvernementele organisaties Organisations non gouvernementales - Activité politique Organisations non-gouvernementales - Activité politique Organizaciones no gubernamentales - Actividad política Écologisme Environmentalism Non-governmental organizations > Political activity Politik Umweltschutzorganisation
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	X, 238 S.
ISBN:	0791427897 0791427900