ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the significance of cities for global environmental governance (GEG) by investigating city networks that emerge out of the location strategies of global environmental NGOs (ENGOs). It discusses the office networks of three major global ENGOs: WWF, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FoE) and introduces an analytical framework to study them. The chapter addresses the issue whether it is these cities or other ones that are strategic places in networks of GEG. It shows how it can be used to analyze the global networks of WWF, Greenpeace and FoE. With this basic knowledge in mind and it describes the relevance of examining flows, normative frameworks and flexibility/adaptability in order to study the network structure. The chapter proposes an analytical framework that allows us to understand what network form organization brings to the internal and external relations of global ENGOs, what type of underlying dynamics are at play and how cities are sites of global environmental governance.
