Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global

by Thomas Princen and Matthias Finger

Book Overview

At a time when states are reactive, at best, to the global ecological crisis and when economic globalization seems to be significantly contributing to the acceleration of that crisis, environmental non-governmental orgainisations (NGOs) are proliferating. This book explains the key role of NGOs in an emerging world environmental politics, showing how NGOs act both as independent bargainers and as agents of social learning, to link biophysical conditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415115094
• ISBN13: 9780415115094
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"