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Rainforest Policies and United States NGOs: Targets and Tactics of Influence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Rusli bin Mohd
Affiliation:
Lecturer, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Jan G. Laarman
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Forestry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8002, USA.

Extract

NGOs have started to feature prominently in the political landscape of many industrialized as well as developing nations, and their roles in global environmental governance are being increasingly recognized by governmental policymakers. The 1993 gathering at the Earth Summit in Rio, where NGOs were accorded a seat at the negotiating tables alongside of government representatives, bears testimony to this fact. Besides involving themselves in environmental policy negotiations, however, NGOs have used other strategies and tactics to influence global environmental policy decision-making.

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Main Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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