Some Issues Facing Environmental Organisations in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the South pacific Action, Committee for Human Ecology and the Environment

Title
Some Issues Facing Environmental Organisations in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the South pacific Action, Committee for Human Ecology and the Environment
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
National Research Institute
Place of publication
Papua New Guinea
UNE publication id
une:23380
Abstract
The South Pacific Action Committee for Human Ecology and the Environment is a regional environmental Non Government Organization based in Fiji but serving twelve small island nations in the South Pacific region, and involved in environmental education both formal and non-formal. At present its membership base is very limited numerically, regionally and also in terms of its socio-economic make up. This article analyses organization's current membership and issues base and makes a number of recommendations as to how the organization might broaden these. Some suggestions are also made as to how it might link its work more explicitly to issues of equality and social justice. These suggestions may have implications for other environmental NGOs in larger developing countries in the region such as Papua New Guinea which faces similar environmental issues, such as loss of rainforest, degradation of coral reefs and mangrove destruction.
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Citation
Papua New Guinea Journal of Education, 39(1), p. 35-45
ISSN
0031-1472
Start page
35
End page
45

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