Accounting for Difficulties faced in Materializing a Transnational ENGO Conservation Network: A Case-Study from the Mediterranean

Iosif Botetzagias, Prue Robinson and Lily Venizelos
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Iosif Botetzagias: Iosif Botetzagias is Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Policy, Centre for Environmental Policy and Strategic Environmental Management, University of the Aegean, Greece. His recent publications include "The Influence of Social Capital on Environmental Policy Instruments," (with N. Jones, C. Sophoulis, T. Iosifides, and K. Evaggelinos, Environmental Politics 18 (4) 2009); and "Green Party Factionalism: The Case of the Ecologists-Alternatives of Greece," (with J. Karamichas, South European Society and Politics 8 (3) 2003).
Prue Robinson: Prue Robinson is the Australian representative to MEDASSET-The Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles. She is co-author of "'Everything is Truthful Here:' Custom Village Tourism in Tanna, Vanuatu" in J. Connell and B. Rugendyke (eds.) Tourism at the Grass Roots: Villagers and Visitors in the Asia Pacific (with J. Connell, 2008).
Lily Venizelos: Lily Venizelos is President of MEDASSET-The Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles, and member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group. Her recent publications include "A Review of Sea Turtle Conservation in Turkey" in A. Demetropoulos and O. Turkozan (eds.) Proceedings of the Second Mediterranean Conference on Marine Turtles. Barcelona Convention-Bern Convention-Bonn Convention (CMS) (with P. Edgar, 2009); and "Zakynthos Sea Turtle Odyssey-A Political Ball Game," (with K. Corbett, Marine Turtle Newsletter 108, 2005).

Global Environmental Politics, 2010, vol. 10, issue 1, 115-151

Abstract: This paper investigates a rarely visited theme in academic research, namely the reasons hindering successful trans-national networking of environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs). We visit this theme by analyzing the MEDSETCON initiative, an attempt in the late 1990s-early 2000s to create a Mediterranean Sea Turtle Conservation network, which ultimately bore no fruit. Prior research had emphasized the role played by individual and organizational characteristics as well as the issue's urgency, relevance and importance. In the case of MEDSETCON, all of these "environmental" conditions were met, yet the network did not materialize. We argue that this was because, albeit necessary, the conditions identified by other research are not in themselves sufficient. Thus we inform prior research by pointing out that networking is, ceteris paribus, also the outcome of successful resource exchanges between prospective members. Accordingly, we argue that individual ENGOs pursue networking to the extent that they feel that this will enhance some of their sources of leverage (the intellectual, political, fiscal and membership assets they need for operating and promoting their agenda), thus in effect exchanging stocks of one kind of leverage for another. (c) 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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