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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book examines the impact of current and emerging digital technologies on global environmental governance, and in particular on environmental civil society organizations.

Technological innovations are constantly emerging: internet and social media platforms, blockchains, big data, and artificial intelligence are some of the most common or promising digital technologies of our times. Through case studies and the analysis of concrete applications of digital technologies, this book shows how these digital technologies can be deployed to support global environmental governance, and in particular a multi-stakeholder approach to the protection of the environment. It provides an overview of the diverse uses of these digital technologies by civil society　organizations (CSOs) in global environmental governance. In this fast-changing context, the capacity of environmental CSOs to manage and benefit from digital technologies, and to produce and distribute information, can strengthen their participation in global environmental governance. Their key roles, including advocacy, monitoring, knowledge production, fundraising, nudging individual behaviors, and project implementation, greatly benefit from the use of these technologies. By examining some of the most-utilized current digital technologies and presenting some of the most prominent emerging ones, this book aims to illustrate how active civil society organizations operate, and how ICTs support some of their roles, and therefore their participation in global environmental governance.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of environmental studies and politics, global governance, political sociology, geography and communication studies along with policy makers and communication specialists from the environmental community.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: ICTs and the emergence of environmental civil society organizations

1. Introduction
2. Emergence of new forms of authority

1. Civil society and technology in sustainable development
2. Global civil society
3. New forms of authority

3. Informational society

1. New patterns of interaction
2. Net generation
3. Activism 2.0

4. Concluding remarks

Chapter 2: Websites and the advocacy role of civil society

1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Providing access to Information
4. Consultation with their audience
5. Mobilizing their audience
6. Website usability
7. Website maturity
8. Results per organization
9. Web Traffic
10. Concluding remarks

Chapter 3: Social media platforms and the advocacy role of civil society

1. Introduction
2. Social media platforms
3. Social media and advocacy
4. Methodology
5. Social media presence
6. Social media content analysis
7. Concluding remarks

Chapter 4: Participation and the digitalization of a multi-stakeholder process

1. Introduction
2. Participation in the motions process
3. Progressive use of ICTs to submit a motion
4. Online discussion platform
5. Online vote on motions
6. Concluding remarks

Chapter 5: Blockchain and environmental civil society organization

1. Introduction
2. Blockchain in few words
3. Financing environmental projects
4. Effective monitoring
5. Nudging citizens
6. Concluding remarks

Chapter 6: Big data and environmental civil society organization

1. Introduction
2. Big data explained
3. Citizen Crowdsourcing
4. Partnerships with the private sector
5. Scientific community
6. Concluding remarks

Chapter 7: Artificial intelligence and environmental civil society organization

1. Introduction
2. Artificial intelligence explained
3. Implementing field projects
4. Producing knowledge
5. Concluding remarks