Good cop/bad cop : environmental NGOs and their strategies toward business / Thomas P. Lyon, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyon, Thomas P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations--Environmental aspects.

Non-governmental organizations.

Non-governmental organizations--Social aspects.

Corporations--Environmental aspects.

Corporations.

Social responsibility of business.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xx, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Good cop, bad cop

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2010]

Summary:

"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."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

The twenty-first-century NGO / John Elkington, Seb Beloe

Who is part of the environmental movement? / Andrew J. Hoffman, Stephanie Bertels

Civil society and the environment: understanding the dynamics and impacts of the U.S. environmental movement / Robert J. Brulle, J. Craig Jenkins

Environmental groups: what political science has to offer / Lawrence S. Rothenberg

An economic perspective on NGO strategies and objectives / John W. Maxwell

Confrontation vs. cooperation: alternative NGO styles / Thomas P. Lyon

World Wildlife Fund / Matthew C. Banks

Environmental Defense Fund / Gwen Ruta

Greenpeace / Kert Davies

Rainforest Action Network / Jennifer Krill

Corporate responses to NGO campaigns / Martin B. Zimmerman

Cooperation: learning from BP's experience with NGOs / Steven W. Percy

An NGO research program: a collective action perspective / Erica Johnson, Aseem Prakash

Good cops, bad cops, and the new environmental governance / Thomas P. Lyon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 271) and index.

ISBN:

9781933115771

1933115777

9781933115788

1933115785

OCLC:

465190303

Publisher Number:

99969428792