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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs : International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics
Architects, Agitators, and Entrepreneurs : International and Nongovernmental Organizations in Global Environmental Politics
This chapter introduces two types of representative organizations active in global environmental politics—international governmental organizations, also known as intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)—and discusses their roles in instigating, coordinating, and implementing global environmental governance over the past decades. IGOs and NGOs represent very different constituencies: nation-states and civil society, respectively. As agitators for environmental action, architects of governance solutions, and entrepreneurs for new sorts of initiatives, they have been critical in shaping and directing the international community’s response to global environmental challenges.1 Both IGOs and NGOs have, in the face of intransigence, low capacity, and/or low commitment of national governments, taken ...
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