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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Environmental NGOs"”.
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Environmental NGOs and Business: A Grounded Theory of Assessment, Targeting, and Influencing
… to develop a grounded theory explaining how ENGOs assess the environmental performance of firms, select target industries and firms, and influence those targeted industries and firms. A preliminary model based on research in the fields of social movements, neo-institutional theory, stakeholder …
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Toward a more deliberative port planning : the "vision and daring" of environmental NGOs in negotiations on the Second Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
… the project planning came to an impasse when environmental organizations and port expansion proponents could not reconcile their positions on if and under what conditions the port should be extended. I posit that at this critical juncture certain environmental organizations took an …
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Rozvoj sítě environmentálních neziskových organizací v Pardubickém kraji.
This diploma paper focuses on the area of environmental NGOs in Pardubice region. The main goal is to map chosen environmental NGOs and choose suitable environmental centers, which should have become the part of network of environmental NGOs in Pardubice region. The integral part ot this work is …
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Environmental Movements in China’s Digital Age
New media technologies have transformed environmental campaigns and activism in China. The social media affords both Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and local protester communities the opportunity to embrace the dynamics of environmental movements in the digital age, when flexible networks of …
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The Canadian environmental nonprofit sector : understanding organizational effectiveness assessment
Environmental NGOs work to address a deficit in environmental protection and improvement. In order to achieve positive environmental outcomes, it is critical that these groups are as effective as possible. Studying how nonprofits construct their assessments of organizational effectiveness can …
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Access to Environmental Justice: NGO Environmental Advocacy on Mining-Related Environmental Issues in Mongolia
In this thesis, I apply the theory of environmental justice to determine how NGOs use substantive and procedural environmental rights to advocate for mining-affected nomadic communities in Mongolia. Environmental NGOs often possess legal and scientific expertise pertinent to resolving and …
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Essays on the Quantification of Newspaper Articles
… more personalized and favorable coverage than environmental NGOs, and that the media portray the debate as a conflict between socio-economic and ecological coalitions. Overall, the dissertation shows that text-based indicators are most informative when they are designed to match the corpus and …
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Environmental NGO-Private Sector Partnerships: A Tool to Generate Business Value and Protect the Natural World
<p>Many environmental challenges are complicated by complex and social, cultural, economic and political interactions, which are difficult to address by a single entity. However, partnerships can offer the necessary depth and versatility to address them effectively. By working together, there is an …
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Producing soy to save the planet? : Challenging sustainable soy governance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado.
Collaborations between corporate actors and environmental NGOs are an increasingly common means for agri-food companies to enact sustainability objectives. Taking a comparative case study approach, this research examines two such initiatives from the soy industry, the Roundtable for Responsible Soy …
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Coastal development decision-making in Costa Rica : the need for a new framework to balance socio-economic and environmental impacts
… answer these questions, this thesis studies the Environmental Assessments conducted for three tourism and real estate projects in the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica to determine how environmental, economic, and social tradeoffs have been made in practice. The analysis shows weak assessments, lack of …
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Changed climate : networking, professionalization, and grassroots organizing in U.S. environmental organizations
… and Grassroots Organizing in U.S Environmental Organizations," explores the efforts of four established U.S. environmental NGOs to change their organizational cultures and routine practices to develop grassroots activism for climate change advocacy. I find that although actors …
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Forestry in a changing landscape: building professionalism in the British forestry sector
… ministers and officials see forestry as an environmental activity and give precedence to the views of environmental NGOs over those of the forestry profession. This does not necessarily reflect the way that society thinks about forests. Cultural associations, enjoyment of amenities such as …
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Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: How Three Theories Explain Ngo Responses to Shifting Funding Priorities
… volatile. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in developing countries rely heavily on foreign donor funding and potential over-reliance on donors becomes apparent. The research at hand concentrates on the relationship between environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and …