Good Cop/Bad Cop

Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies toward Business
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-933115-77-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they operate is changing rapidly. Markets, and direct engagement with industry, rather than traditional government regulation, are often the tools of choice for NGOs seeking to change corporate behavior today. Yet these new strategies are poorly understood-by business, academics, and NGOs themselves. How will NGOs choose which battles to fight, differentiate themselves from one another in order to attract membership and funding, and decide when to form alliances and when to work separately? In Good Cop/Bad Cop, Thomas P. Lyon brings together perspectives on environmental NGOs from leading social scientists, as well as leaders from within the NGO and corporate worlds, to assess the state of knowledge on the tactics and the effectiveness of environmental groups. Contributions from Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the World Wildlife Fund describe each organization‘s structure and key objectives, and present case studies that illustrate how each organization makes a difference, especially with regard to its strategies toward corporate engagement. To provide additional perspective, high-level executives from BP and Ford share their views on what causes these relationships between companies and NGOs to either succeed or fail. For students of the social sciences and NGO practitioners, this book takes an important step in addressing an urgent need for objective study of NGO operations and their effectiveness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyon, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutzorganisationen, Naturschützer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Mark Van Putten
Preface
Introduction
Thomas P. Lyon

Part I: Where Are Environmental NGOs Headed?
1. The Twenty-First-Century NGO
John Elkington and Seb Beloe
2. Who Is Part of the Environmental Movement?
Andrew Hoffman and Stephanie Bertels

Part II: How Do Social Scientists Understand NGOs?
3. Civil Society and the Environment: Understanding the Dynamics and Impacts of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Robert Brulle and J. Craig Jenkins
4. Environmental Groups: What Political Science Has to Offer
Lawrence S. Rothenberg
5. An Economic Perspective on NGO Strategies and Objectives
John W. Maxwell

Part III: How Do Practitioners Understand NGOs?
6. Confrontation vs. Cooperation: Alternative NGO Styles
Thomas P. Lyon
7. World Wildlife Fund
Matthew C. Banks
8. Environmental Defense Fund
Gwen Ruta

9. Greenpeace
Kert Davies
10. Rainforest Action Network
Jennifer Krill
11. Corporate Responses to NGO Campaigns
Martin B. Zimmerman
12. Cooperation: Learning from BP's Experience with NGOs
Steven Percy

Part IV: The Road Ahead
13. An NGO Research Program: A Collective Action Perspective
Erica Johnson and Aseem Prakash
14. Good Cops, Bad Cops, and the New Environmental Governance
Thomas P. Lyon

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas P. Lyon is the Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a former Gilbert F. White Fellow at Resources for the Future. He is the editor of The Political Economy of Regulation and the author of Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy.