Non-Governmental Organization's Participation In The Environment Protection In China

The Global Revolution of Association since 1980s and 1990s indicates the global rise of NGOs. As the response to the double failure of government and market, NGO, which is on its start in China, has shown its skills in the commonweal fields, especially in the environment protect fields, playing a more and more important role. Because of the unique style of the nature environment and the special characteristics of economy and society development, Yunnan Province is a typical province where lots of NGOs are acting. So Yunnan Province is a representative place for the study of Environmental-NGOs.Based on plenty of first-hand material rooting in the cases survey focusing on the typical NGOs carrying out the environment-protect-projects in Yunnan Province, the article indicates the status and characteristics of the NGOs in China, trying to do some contribution to the cultivation of our civil society, the quick and healthy growth of NGOs, and the rearch about how to harmonize the economy development and environment protection.The article introduces the environment-protect-projects carrying out by the two selected NGOs, The Green Watershed and The Nature Conservancy. Based on the cases, the article gives an analyse to the main approaches and modes of NGOs'participation to the environment protection, and then discusses the effects and value of NGOs in the enviroment protection in China nowadays as following: mobilizing and integrating society potence, promoting civil participation; acting as the supplement to some government function; being the advocate and educator of the idea of sustainable development; acting as the external supervisor and estimator.Furthermore, the article also gives an analyse to the internal and external factors impacting NGOs'behavior in participation, including the recognition and analysis to the environmental problem, the obligation of fund, the framework and social influence, the ability to seek multi-support, the support from the government, related laws and the policy environment and so on. At the last, the article gives four conclusion as following: (1) NGOs have begun its'rise in the environment protection in China, giving notable contribution to it; (2) there are various approaches of NGOs'participation, and the cooperation relations between NGOs and the government is close and tight; (3) the native NGOs, who is in its'babyhood at present, often have to face the fund problem and some other problem; (4) the ability of the mature foreign NGOs is much stronger, and they can give a good example to the native NGOs in some way.