Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

ENVIRONMENTALISM IN CHINA The state of environmentalism in the China of 2005 resembles that in Taiwan 20 years previously: a few ...

these as well as most TVEs (a large number of which had been privatized), and a domestic private service sector, collectively pr ...

not directly part of a national bureaucratic agency. Also, only one social association could register in the same area for a spe ...

managed, is not in a position to manage, or actually cannot manage well’,^34 and he then proceeded to urge an expansion of ‘soci ...

geographical distribution of green NGOs and social organizations nation-wide are non-existent’.^40 We agree emphatically with Ho ...

A second GONGO is the Chinese National Committee for Man and the Biosphere (MAB), established in the mid-1980s to implement Chin ...

National, Beijing ENGOs This second type of environmental organization is country-wide with respect to its objectives, but becau ...

(GVB), established in 1996 by environmental activist Liao Xiaoyi. Like a few other Beijing-based ENGOs, GVB is registered as an ...

is Tang Hsiyang, a former editor and author of Green World Tour. In 1996, Tang organized a college student camp in the Shangrali ...

International. In 2002, Founder and Director Drashi Dorje received an Earth Award from the SFA. Recently, the Critical Ecosystem ...

Beijing national office.^62 The Nature Conservancy’s commitment to this region is for the next 5–10 years;^63 although more a ca ...

those in Taiwan and other newly democratizing Asian states. The oldest, dating just to the 1980s, are GONGOs, which extend the r ...

Moreover, on large environmental issues such as hydropower development, proponents of development are likely to be closely allie ...

Self-constrained advocacy Most ENGOs participate in what we call ‘self-constrained advocacy’. When they learn about a new enviro ...

summer camps and weekend activities for young children. The WS’s flexible linkages with the business community, however, make it ...

largely dormant. Political participation among China’s private entrepreneurs is focused on narrow business interests and is defe ...

numbers, especially at the local level. Then there are the ‘quasi governmental, quasi people’ (banguan banmin), or ‘governmental ...

the need to develop ties with the business community. In short, the rise of NGOs, especially environmental NGOs, was closely con ...

ENDNOTES This chapter is based on a conference paper presented to the American Political Science Association meetings of early ...

Ibid. See also Saich, Tony (2000), ‘Negotiating the state: the development of social organizations in China’, China Quarterly, ...