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Policy advocacy is an increasingly important function of many
nonprofit organizations, as they seek broad social changes in their
concerning issues. Their advocacy practices, however, have often
been guided by their own past experiences, anecdotes from peer
networks, and consultant advice. Most of their practices have
largely escaped empirical and theoretical grounding that could
better root their work in established theories of policy change.
The first book of its kind, Nonprofits in Policy Advocacy bridges
this gap by connecting real practices of on-the-ground policy
advocates with the burgeoning academic literature in policy
studies. In the process, it empirically identifies six distinct
policy advocacy strategies, and their accompanying tactics, used by
nonprofits. Case studies tell the stories of how advocates apply
these strategies in a wide variety of issues including civil
rights, criminal justice, education, energy, environment, public
health, public infrastructure, and youth. This book will appeal to
both practitioners and academicians, as each gains insights into
the other's views of policy change and the actions that produce it.
China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of
diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China
and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in
western regions, both governments and people face great challenges
in environmental protection and sustainable use of biodiversity
resources as a result of growing interaction between human
activities and natural environment. To meet the challenges,
governments in these regions need to adopt a series of important
policy measures, not only to reduce industrial emissions, but also
to return farmland to forests and pasture to grasslands and to
implement measures of ecological migration to reduce human
activities in ecological conservation areas. In this regard, China
must not only learn profound lessons from industrialized countries
but also search for international cooperation. The United States
provides some good comparative case studies on the environmental
protection, grassroots environmental management, and conservation
policies in western regions This book attempts to address key
questions about Chinese and U.S. environmental policies by looking
at historical development of environmental protection and current
environmental policy in the western regions of the two countries.
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