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NGOs and environmental policies : Asia and Africa
- Title
- NGOs and environmental policies : Asia and Africa / edited by David Potter.
- Publication
- Portland, Ore : F. Cass, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Potter, David C.
- Description
- 173 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Widespread public concern about environmental issues has attracted growing interest in the subject in both the popular media and academic literature. The work of NGOs (non-governmental organisations) like Greenpeace and others in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and business organisations has received some attention, but what has been written is mostly Northern-based and about Northern NGOs.
- This book makes an original contribution to the subject in three major ways. First, new evidence is reported resulting from field research in Asia and Africa by a team of social scientists from the Open University and their collaborators. Second, the focus is mainly on NGOs in Asia and Africa; since environmental policies usually emanate from, and are affected by, an international political context there is attention also to the international linkages between Southern NGOs and their Northern colleagues.
- Third, the original research reported here relates to important theoretical issues in the academic literatures of comparative politics and the social sciences more generally. This book will appeal to political scientists, other academic specialists and students interested in comparative politics, development studies and the environment. It will also be widely welcomed by development practitioners, including those in official development agencies and environmental NGOs.
- Subjects
- Non-governmental organizations > Africa
- Deforestation > Government policy > Africa
- Environmental policy > Africa
- Deforestation > Government policy > Asia
- Forest conservation > Government policy > Asia
- Environmental policy > Asia
- Forest conservation > Government policy > Africa
- Non-governmental organizations > Asia
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / David Potter and Annie Taylor -- 1. Democratisation and the Environment: NGOs and Deforestation Policies in India (Karnataka) and Indonesia (North Sumatra) / David Potter -- 2. NGO Advocacy, Democracy and Policy Development: Some Examples Relating to Environmental Policies in Zimbabwe and Botswana / Alan Thomas -- 3. Does North-South Collaboration Enhance NGO Influence on Deforestation Policies in Malaysia and Indonesia? / Bernard Eccleston -- 4. Regime Theory and Non-Governmental Organisations: The Case of Forest Conservation / David Humphreys -- 5. NGOs and Competing Representations of Deforestation as an Environmental Issue in Malaysia / Bernard Eccleston -- 6. Does the Definition of the Issue Matter? NGO Influence and the International Convention to Combat Desertification in Africa / Susan Carr and Roger Mpande.
- ISBN
- 0714642150 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95026760
- OCLC
- 33984322
- ocm33984322
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries