| NGOs and Environmental Policies: Asia and Africa Contributor(s): Potter, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714642150 ISBN-13: 9780714642154 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: 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 organizations) like Greenpeace and others in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and business organizations 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 inthe academic literatures of comparative politics and the social sciences more generally. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Resources - Political Science |
| Dewey: 333.750 |
| LCCN: 95026760 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.52 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Covering the work of non-governmental organizations in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and business organizations, this study looks at field research in Asia and Africa, and relates it to theoretical issues in the academic field. |