caa a22 4500 463194799 CHVBK 20180406164919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9022-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9022-y Revolution or inch-by-inch? Campaign approaches on climate change by environmental groups [Elektronische Daten] [Nina Hall, Ros Taplin] Climate change is a significant environmental, social and environmental problem that has been identified by scientists in consensus internationally. The Australian Government's response is considered by environmental non-government organisations (NGOs) to be inadequate. NGOs are ‘change agents' of society, and in this role they are agitating to influence political decision-making on climate change response. This paper outlines the campaign strategies being used by Australian NGOs to attract public and political attention to the issue of climate change. Using seven NGOs as case studies, the archival materials of these organisations were accessed and analysed. Current academic and other literature also was used to reflect on their effectiveness. Four campaign themes and, within these, fifteen activities were identified. The results indicate that the notion of whether NGOs are undertaking an ‘revolutionary' or ‘incremental' approach, or any other narrow strategic approach put forward by various scholars is too simple for analysing campaigns: none of the NGOs appear to intentionally favour one type of strategy. The question raised by this finding is whether the NGOs' current ‘multi-strategic' approach is effective. This research contributes to filling the information gap with regard to NGO campaign strategies on environmental issues, and highlights the need for further research. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Australia nationallicence Campaign strategies nationallicence Climate change nationallicence Environmental advocacy nationallicence Non-government organisations nationallicence Hall Nina Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, 2109, NSW, Australia aut Taplin Ros Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, 2109, NSW, Australia aut The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 95-107 0251-1088 27:1<95 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hall Nina Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, 2109, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taplin Ros Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, 2109, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 95-107 0251-1088 27:1<95 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer