ADVOCATING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

Focuses on the role of transnational environmental advocacy networks in the advancement of global environmental movements as of March 2004. Overview of achievements of transnational environmental advocacy networks; Factors which determine the effectiveness of a network's efforts; Challenges facing transnational environmental advocacy networks; Efforts done by major transnational environmental advocacy networks in Brazil, India and Ecuador to promote environmentally sustainable development at the local level during the 1980s and 1990s. INSETS: THE RONDÔNIA NETWORK: RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL;THE NARMADA NETWORKS: NIMAR VLLEY, CENTRAL INDIA;THE ANTI-OIL NETWORK IN ECUADOR'S ORIENTE.