Climate Change Advocacy Research Report
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2020-09-02
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Despite the importance of environmental advocacy in ensuring effective decision-making processes and outcomes, smaller community-based resource stewardship organizations in Hawaiʻi often lack the skills, tools, guidance, and capacity to organize their own advocacy plans and strategies. This lack of support has made it difficult to protect and fulfill their environmental interests through an inability to participate in policy and decision-making processes at local and state levels. There is a need to support these groups to develop their own advocacy frameworks and plans, which will ensure their ability to express their views on climate change and natural resource issues that impact them.
This resource seeks to support small community-based natural resource organizations in Hawaiʻi to more effectively participate in climate change and natural resource policy and decision-making processes at local and state levels.
Through an internship, literature review, and personal interviews, my guidebook assesses the unique challenges small groups face with respect to environmental advocacy efforts, as well as identifies the types of information, tools, skills, and resources needed to address these challenges.
This guidebook is intended to empower small groups by using past learnings and research to inform future advocacy successes, and providing the planning and organizational information and tools necessary to voice their concerns on issues that impact them. Overall, greater community participation in legislative processes will uphold just decision-making processes, ultimately improving protection and conservation of the natural resources and biodiversity of our islands now and in perpetuity.
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