Colleagues, thank you for the many replies to my query. Below are the list of suggestions I received off-list (Raul shared more with the list directly). Also, my apologies to those who thought we were soliciting manuscripts on this topic; instead I was helping a colleague in conservation biology get up to speed on the subject!
All the best, John *Here was my initial query:* I'm writing on behalf of a colleague looking for a few especially good articles, etc., detailing and/or analyzing the shift from Federal to State and Local levels in recent US Environmental Politics. Relatedly, any that describe a shift away from the state to NGOs or other non-state actors would be valuable. Please reply off-list and I'll be happy to share the results here! John— The book I was part of a while back on collaborative watershed management might be useful—Swimming Upstream, ed. Sabatier et al., MIT 2005—has a historical chapter (specific to water), some theory, and case studies. Cheers, —Zev *** In response to your request, here is a list of references that look at the shift from state/intergovernmental agencies to NGO in the context of neoliberalism - labeled as "NGOization" by certain scholars. The main reference is Petras (1997). I attach a paper I recently co-authored where you can find a more complete bibliography (the intro/lit review might also be useful but the core content is only tangentially related to what you are looking for). Choudry, Aziz and Dip Kapoor, eds. 2010. *Learning from the Ground up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production*. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Petras, James. 1997. “Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America.” *Monthly Review* 49(7). [ http://monthlyreview.org/1997/12/01/imperialism-and-ngos-in-latin-america/]. Shivji, Issa G. 2007. *Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa*. Nairobi and Oxford: Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice. Petras, James and Henry Veltmeyer. 2014. *The New Extractivism: A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?* London: Zed Books. Carroll, William K. and Jean Philippe Sapinski. 2015. “Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization?” *Critical Sociology* Forthcoming. All best, jp sapinski *** Hello John, Last summer, on behalf of the APSA STEP group, I had to go through a couple of year's worth of articles in Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Politics. Some of them may be of interest! I was keeping an eye out for articles on ENGO influence. See pasted references and comments below. At any rate, it's good to be in touch, from snowy Pennsylvania! Best regards, Kerry GEP 13: 1, Bernauer et al; Is there a democracy-civil society paradox in global env governance? ENGOs have positive effect on getting countries to ratify internat enviro treaties. But their influence decreases as country gets more democratic. Includes "veto points" in demo, and incentives in rep govt. GEP 13:3 Orsini, "Multi-forum non-state actors: Navigating the regime complexes for forestry & genetic resources." (*Illustrates ENGO influence -- they can help unify fragmented regime complex. But participation is costly to ENGOs.) * GEP 13:4 Kincaid, Roberts, "No Talk, some walk: Obama on Climate change..." Obama seeks to prioritize climate change, against congressional opposition. States use strategic "two level game". (*States cater to domestic constituency & international obligations. Good references on power of lobbies. A list of ENGOs. Obamas priorities change after mid-term elections*.) GEP 13:4 Ozymy & Rey, "Wild SPaces or Polluted Places, Contentious Policies & Consensus instittions" Different issues are subject to different institutional strategies. Centralization helps air pollution,decentralization for biodiversity. Corporatist bargaining structures help. (*The case for ENGOs*) GEP 14; 2 Hadden, "Explaining variation in transnational climate change activism" There is spillover between different types of social movements, and it does not depend on 'radicalizing' all actors. (*Good examples of 'confrontational' types of activism. Importance of ENGO*s.) EP 22:5, Lund, "Environmetnal Diplomacy: Influence of business and environmental NGOs in clean development mechanism" Need to look at both types of NGOs, business and environmental. ARticle shows that business & industry have more structural influence... (*Perfect illustration of preponderant influence of business in enviro conflict. Also, is it difficult to differentiate types of NGOs???*) EP 22: 5, Hisschemöller & Sioziou, "Boundary organizations for resource mobilization" How boundary orgs mediate between citizens & govt and challenge the dominant knowledge framework of regular instittuions. (*ENGOs as party-like mediators -- but with scientific/knowledge component.*) EP 23:2, Bloomfield, "Shame campaigns & envir justice" ENGOs try to shame corporations. But this misses problems of consumption & inequality. EP 23: 3, Downie, "Transnational actors in enviro pol: strategies & influence in long negotiations." Must consider business and enviro. NGOs together. (*Role of ENGOs. Good case for national level analysis*.) *** Ben Cashore forwarded several of his recent articles: Cashore, Ben and Graeme Auld, “Forestry Review” June 2011 Cashore, Benjamin, “Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance.” *Governance*, October 2002 Cashore, Benjamin and Michael W. Stone, “Does California Need Delaware?” *Regulation and Governance *2014. *** Shey, J., & Belis, D. (2013). Building a Municipal Food Policy Regime in Minneapolis: Implications for Urban Climate Governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31(5), 893-910. *** If you are interested in a non-US example of the shift to NGOs for environmental monitoring then you might find this article interesting. We wrote it a decade ago but it has been well received and cited. Chris Beth Savan, Christopher Gore, Alexis J Morgan, “Shifts in Environmental governance in Canada” *Environment and Planning C*, 2004. *** there are excellent chapters available in: Klyza, C. M., & Sousa, D. J. (2013). American environmental policy: Beyond gridlock. Updated and expanded edition. Best, Thibaud On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:20 PM, John M. Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I'm writing on behalf of a colleague looking for a few especially good > articles, etc., detailing and/or analyzing the shift from Federal to State > and Local levels in recent US Environmental Politics. Relatedly, any that > describe a shift away from the state to NGOs or other non-state actors > would be valuable. Please reply off-list and I'll be happy to share the > results here! > > All the best, > John > > -- > John M. Meyer, Professor and Chair > Department of Politics > Humboldt State University > 1 Harpst St. > Arcata, CA 95521 USA > > 707.826.4497 (voice) > [email protected] > users.humboldt.edu/john.m.meyer > *Now Available: Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and > the Resonance Dilemma. <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engaging-everyday> *MIT > Press, 2015 > *;Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. > <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199685271.do>*Oxford, 2016. > -- John M. Meyer, Professor and Chair Department of Politics <http://humboldt.edu/politics/> Humboldt State University 1 Harpst St. Arcata, CA 95521 USA 707.826.4497 (voice) [email protected] users.humboldt.edu/john.m.meyer *Now Available: Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma. <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engaging-everyday> *MIT Press, 2015 *;Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199685271.do>*Oxford, 2016. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
