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Environmental non-governmental organizations and global environmental discourse

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 27 May 2020Publisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS)Journal:PLOS ONE, volume 15, page e0232945 (eissn: 1932-6203,

Authors: Stefan Partelow; Klara Johanna Winkler; Gregory M. Thaler;

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232945

pmid: 32459807

pmc: PMC7252593

Environmental non-governmental organizations and global environmental discourse

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Abstract

Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) exist worldwide, and since the 1980s they have increasingly influenced global environmental politics and environmental discourse. We analyze an original dataset of 679 ENGOs participating in global environmental conventions in the mid-2010s, and we apply quantitative content analysis to ENGO mission statements to produce an inductive typology of global environmental discourse. Discourse categories are combined with ENGO attribute data to visualize the political topology of this globally-networked ENGO sector. Our results confirm some common assertions and provide new insights. ENGOs are more diverse than conventionally recognized. Quantitative evidence confirms strong North-South disparities in human and financial resources. Four primary discourses are identified: Environmental Management, Climate Politics, Environmental Justice, and Ecological Modernization. We compare our typology to existing literature, where Climate Politics and Environmental Justice are under-appreciated, and we discuss ways to expand on the data and methods of this study. Synoptic empirical ENGO research is essential to accurately understanding the ENGO sector and global environmental politics.

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Keywords

Organizations, Science, Climate Change, Q, Politics, R, Environment, Environmental Policy, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Medicine, Humans, Social Change

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