Environmental Activism And World Civic Politics

Author : Paul Kevin Wapner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427897
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics written by Paul Kevin Wapner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438411057
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance written by Ronnie D. Lipschutz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christof Mauch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461643341
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shades of Green written by Christof Mauch and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term 'environmentalism' covers an entire range of perceptions, values and interests. It demonstrates that each instance of environmental activism is shaped by historically unique circumstances, highlighting within each chapter the ideological, social, and political origins of efforts to protect the environment. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.

Author : Christopher Rootes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317994833
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Movements written by Christopher Rootes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.

Author : Paul Wapner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438423276
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics written by Paul Wapner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-01-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical study of the politics of transnational environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the World Wildlife Fund that argues that environmental activists practice world civic politics and play a central role in the way the world addresses environmental issues.

Author : B. Doherty
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137316713
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity written by B. Doherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South divide.

Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791431184
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance written by Ronnie D. Lipschutz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the growing role of global civil society and local environmental activism in the management and protection of the environment worldwide.

Author : Kevin Michael DeLuca
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0805858482
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image Politics written by Kevin Michael DeLuca and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume describes principles and practices of environmental activists, and the use of images to promote causes. For environmental studies, rhetoric, and political communication scholars and students.

Author : Brian Doherty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317968603
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Borders written by Brian Doherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538105108
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Politics for a Changing World written by Ronnie D. Lipschutz and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and the possibilities to address problems through mobilization of collective action and social power.