How mainstream environmental groups are middlemen of democracy
(p 115-16)
Citizen environmental democracy now falls primarily to the foster care of advocacy groups who present an institutionalized face of public concern. Whether these organizations inject a heroic thumb in the failed dike of environmental law or unwittingly enable the demise of environmentalism continues to be debated. To a certain extent, they may do both. ...
Mainstream environmental groups, however, tend to operate in ways that perpetuate, rather than challenge, the very dysfunction that grips the environmental system as a whole. ...
At another level, large environmental groups rarely challenge (openly at least) the dysfunction that infects nearly the entire system of natural resource governance.
Citizen environmental democracy now falls primarily to the foster care of advocacy groups who present an institutionalized face of public concern. Whether these organizations inject a heroic thumb in the failed dike of environmental law or unwittingly enable the demise of environmentalism continues to be debated. To a certain extent, they may do both. ...
Mainstream environmental groups, however, tend to operate in ways that perpetuate, rather than challenge, the very dysfunction that grips the environmental system as a whole. ...
At another level, large environmental groups rarely challenge (openly at least) the dysfunction that infects nearly the entire system of natural resource governance.
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