ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to identify and explain the specific factors that have confounded the development of NGO-led environmental governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina, despite the best efforts of international donors. It provides an exposition and analysis of environmental mobilizations and non-state activity around river-basin management in Herzegovina. The chapter explores the revelation of some evidence that local organizations are raising awareness about environmental issues and risk, and helping to mobilize communities and to give voice to local concerns. It provides the legacy of ethnic violence, conflict, and nationalism has guided issues and ideologies that have dominated post-succession politics. The chapter presents technocratic-scientific interpretations of environmentalism are predominant, rather than framing environmentalism in terms of democratic governance, civil society, and liberal pluralism. It presents the states have been unable to effectively implement and monitor effective multi-level governance due to the weak functional capacity of the new state institutions and authorities.
