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This essay reviews the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for its potential contributions to an emerging environmental regime for Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The NAFTAdocument, it is argued, falls well short of meeting the core demands of the environmental lobby as expressed in various documents published in the spring and summer of 1992. It has nevertheless furthered the emergence of a North American environmental management regime by contributing to the mobilization of environmental organizations in the trade policy arena, subjecting existing environmental management arrangements to close scrutiny, generating innovative policy solutions to extant problems, and incorporating a limited number of environmental provisions within the NAFTA document.

The arrival of Anne Marie Tietjen and myself in Uiaku village in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, in November 1981 triggered a great deal of speculation. I had made contact with the local priest and village leaders through the good offices of the Anglican Church and some of the people who met us were clearly familiar with the odd pursuits of researchers. Some fifteen years later, I learned that some of the older people had speculated that we were returning ancestors who would hopefully rejuvenate the fortunes of the Maisin people. Others, perhaps more in tune with the national times, hoped that we would draw upon our vast business connections in "America" to bring development to the Maisin. These reactions were the kind we expected in light of what we had read and heard about New Guinea. What we did not expect was that the majority of villagers had already decided that we were missionaries. Anthropologists working in Papua New Guinea expect to encounter "strange" customs and "exotic" beliefs, by which we mean phenomena that we assume to be indigenous in origin, that make sense within the distinctive logic of a cultural "Other". We tend to be decidedly less impressed by things that look familiar – churches, schools, trade stores, and the like. Anthropologists have always studied such things – and in recent years these studies have become quite sophisticated – but usually as signs of the impact of outside agencies with which, as outsiders ourselves, we are already familiar. Like other anthropologists who have worked in Oro Province in recent years, I could not help but be impressed by how central the church was in Maisin life in the 1980s but I still perceived it largely as an import that duplicated Christian institutions elsewhere. So too, incidentally, did the Maisin. But Maisin notions about the nature of and their need for "missionaries" provided an early clue that much more was at work here. Christianity was an import but one that Maisin had over the course of decades remoulded to fit with their own cultural orientations, the contingencies of interacting with outsiders, and aspirations for social and economic improvement in their community. In greeting my wife and myself as missionaries, Maisin gave us our first clue that Christianity meant something different for them than it does for people in my own country. When we arrived in Uiaku in 1981, most Maisin longed for missionaries who would assist them in achieving political and moral unity and, thus united, economic prosperity. In the mid-1990s, this dream seemed to be coming yes. The Maisin have gained practical and moral support from a wide variety of organizations, most of them involved in environmental conservation. The activists do not think of themselves as missionaries anymore than my wife and I did. They tend to view the Maisin as an autonomous indigenous people whose traditional ways of life are now threatened by the rapacious forces of multinational corporations, particularly logging and mining interests. I do not think that their perceptions are entirely wrong. I do want to suggest, however, that the Maisin have been dealing with outsiders for a long time. Their prior experiences necessarily shape their perception of and ways of dealing with the newcomers. And to a considerable extent, they are treating the newcomers as if they were the long-awaited missionaries. Unfortunately, there is often fierce rivalry between different groups and agencies that work in partnership with indigenous peoples. There is a long-standing rivalry between some anthropologists and missionaries although their battles tend to pale when compared to the nasty sectarian sniping that occurs between missions and between rival environmental organizations. What I write here could be read as a put down of the environmentalists who have arrived in large numbers in Collingwood Bay in recent years but this is not my intention. I feel tremendous respect and gratitude for the generous time, energy, and imagination that these activists have put into direct assistance to the Maisin and to the development of projects meant to benefit the community. Indeed, I have joined their ranks. I hope, however, that twenty years of researching and thinking about Maisin society and history have provided me with some insights that will be of interest and use to my new colleagues. I use the term "colleagues" here deliberately. I have myself become a missionary in the Maisin sense. ; AusAID

This analytical review is dedicated to Russian civil society in exile in Georgia, an ongoing story of relocation due to internal repressions in Russia, laws affecting NGOs and freedom of speech, the war in Ukraine, and the military draft in Russia. We briefly highlight the whole range of Russian relocants' activities in Georgia, yet focus in depth on environmental activism. Based on our informants' environmental biographies in Russia and in Georgia, we determine and highlight activists' categories, as well as analyzing their motivations and repertoire of collective action.

"As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental reforms become more pressing. Defensive Environmentalists and the Dynamics of Global Reform answers these questions through a historical analysis of two processes that have contributed to environmental reforms, one in which people become defensive environmentalists concerned about environmental problems close to home and another in which people become altruistic environmentalists intent on alleviating global problems after experiencing catastrophic events such as hurricanes, droughts and fires. These focusing events make reform more urgent and convince people to become altruistic environmentalists. Bolstered by defensive environmentalists, the altruists gain strength in environmental politics and reforms occur"--

To advance understandings of how neoliberal ideologies are linked to peoples' everyday environmentalist practices, this article examines processes through which green neoliberal subjects are made. Bringing together critical perspectives on green neoliberalism and symbolic interactionist perspectives on identities, I develop the concept of green neoliberal identity work, a mechanism through which neoliberal environmentalist subjects are produced. I use environmentalists' promotions and uses of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) as a case study, and employ mixed qualitative methods and grounded theory analysis. Data were collected in North Carolina through interviews, participant observation, and texts. The data reveal four generic patterns of green neoliberal identity work: celebrations and renunciations of particular technologies, inclusive-talk, performing moral math, and technological progress-talk. These patterns show that framing green neoliberal subject formation through the lens of identity work illuminates how these subjects form themselves through micro-level social processes, and opens up different ways of thinking about resistance.Keywords: environmentalism, neoliberalism, identity work, subjectivities, identities

Finally a book about saving our planet that is fast, funny, and inspiring. The aim of this book is to look for every single way we can take care of the planet by how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank--everything. The feel-good book for anyone who loves nature and knows that one person can make a huge difference

Global Voices interviewed environmentalist Javed Hussain who received the prestigious 'Gender Just Climate Solution Award' for his work to secure the rights for women cotton pickers in Pakistan.

In weaving together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection, this book shows Tibetans as both products of an admirable culture and as complex individuals negotiating religious ideals, economic change, and sociopolitical constraints. In short, it opens up a whole new way of understanding Tibet.

Environmentalists * may appeal approval of Buffalo Lake project The Canadian Press Red Deer A $ 13- million project to raise the level of Buffalo Lake near Alberta Premier Don Getty's home was granted approval by the federal and provincial governments Friday. " There is very strong local sup­port for the pro­ject. It has recre­ational and economic benefits," said Alberta Environ­ment spokeswoman Donna Bab­chishin. However, envi­ronmentalists say that raising the level of the lake about half a metre is a waste of money and could destroy habitat for animals such as the piping plover, an endangered bird. Burton Ayles, regional director of the federal Fisheries Department, said it was decided this summer that a full environ­mental assessment of the project was not necessary. He added, however, that he could not go into details on the de- Kostuch In another ruling that cleared the way for the plan, the federal Transportation Department has al­lowed the project to proceed with­out a permit under the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Environmental activist Martha Kostuch of Rocky Mountain House said an environmental assessment may have been required under law, and added she will seek legal advice on challenging the decision in court. " It ( the approval) certainly indi­cates how low government depart­ments will fall to pay off the con­stituents of Premier Don Getty's riding," she charged. " I think approving the project was a political decision," said Mi­chael McNaughton, head of the Red Deer River Naturalists. " The feds don't want to rock the boat. It's Premier Getty's riding and the project is nearly finished," McNaughton said Project supporters lauded the government for proceeding with the project, which they believe will boost tourism and help struggling farm communities in the Stettler area.

Environmentalists * may appeal approval of Buffalo Lake project The Canadian Press Red Deer A $ 13- million project to raise the level of Buffalo Lake near Alberta Premier Don Getty's home was granted approval by the federal and provincial governments Friday. " There is very strong local sup­port for the pro­ject. It has recre­ational and economic benefits," said Alberta Environ­ment spokeswoman Donna Bab­chishin. However, envi­ronmentalists say that raising the level of the lake about half a metre is a waste of money and could destroy habitat for animals such as the piping plover, an endangered bird. Burton Ayles, regional director of the federal Fisheries Department, said it was decided this summer that a full environ­mental assessment of the project was not necessary. He added, however, that he could not go into details on the de- Kostuch In another ruling that cleared the way for the plan, the federal Transportation Department has al­lowed the project to proceed with­out a permit under the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Environmental activist Martha Kostuch of Rocky Mountain House said an environmental assessment may have been required under law, and added she will seek legal advice on challenging the decision in court. " It ( the approval) certainly indi­cates how low government depart­ments will fall to pay off the con­stituents of Premier Don Getty's riding," she charged. " I think approving the project was a political decision," said Mi­chael McNaughton, head of the Red Deer River Naturalists. " The feds don't want to rock the boat. It's Premier Getty's riding and the project is nearly finished," McNaughton said Project supporters lauded the government for proceeding with the project, which they believe will boost tourism and help struggling farm communities in the Stettler area.

The article aims to examine the role of non-farm actors and environmental interest groups in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). It uses policy networks as an analytical tool to understand the structure, dynamics and outcomes of the EU's agricultural decision-making processes. Both locations of actors in the CAP policy structures and interaction modes between actors are examined. Also, the role of networks in shaping the CAP's reform decisions is assessed. The article shows that non-farm actors, and specifically environmentalists, researchers and other agents interested in major CAP reforms, have limited influence on final policy outcomes. At the same time though it has been found that non-farm actors play an increasingly important role in framing the CAP policy debate. They form active and vocal issue networks that impinge upon initial stages of the agenda setting phase in the policy cycle process. Also, the EU institutions become more and more dependent on non-farm actors' expertise when it comes to policy evaluation. Although the pro-reform approach of these actors is clearly noticeable, it is still too small to bring more than incremental changes within the policy