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Citizens, Experts, and the Environment

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380285
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Citizens, Experts, and the Environment written by Frank Fischer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to relate technical facts to social values. Where information ideologues see the modern increase in information as capable of making everyone smarter, others see the emergence of a society divided between those with and those without knowledge. Suggesting realistic strategies to bridge this divide, Fischer calls for meaningful nonexpert involvement in policymaking and shows how the deliberations of ordinary citizens can help solve complex social and environmental problems by contributing local contextual knowledge to the professionals’ expertise. While incorporating theoretical critiques of positivism and methodology, he also offers hard evidence to demonstrate that the ordinary citizen is capable of a great deal more participation than is generally recognized. Popular epidemiology in the United States, the Danish consensus conference, and participatory resource mapping in India serve as examples of the type of inquiry he proposes, showing how the local knowledge of citizens is invaluable to policy formation. In his conclusion Fischer examines the implications of the approach for participatory democracy and the democratization of contemporary deliberative structures. This study will interest political scientists, public policy practitioners, sociologists, scientists, environmentalists, political activists, urban planners, and public administrators along with those interested in understanding the relationship between democracy and science in a modern technological society.

Citizens, Experts, and the Environment

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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Citizens, Experts, and the Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClaims that the problematic communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens is best remedied by a renewal of local citizen participation in deliberative structures./div

Don't Leave it All to the Experts

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Don't Leave it All to the Experts written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Citizens, Experts, and the Environment

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326229
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Citizens, Experts, and the Environment written by Frank Fischer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClaims that the problematic communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens is best remedied by a renewal of local citizen participation in deliberative structures./div

Nature's Experts

Author : Stephen Bocking
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533988
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Experts written by Stephen Bocking and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs. Practical examples and case studies illustrate that science must be relevant, credible, and democratic.

Citizens Make the Difference

Author : United States. Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Citizens Make the Difference written by United States. Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Don't Leave It All to the Experts the Citizen's Role in Environmental Decision Making

Author : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722137915
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Don't Leave It All to the Experts the Citizen's Role in Environmental Decision Making written by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Leave It All To The Experts The Citizen's Role In Environmental Decision Making

Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation

Author : Ortwin Renn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401101310
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation by : Ortwin Renn

Download or read book Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation written by Ortwin Renn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States and Europe came together to address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All the invited scholars from academia, international research institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental principle: For environmental policies to be effective and legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement, environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a framework for evaluating different models of public participation in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or political science communities in issues of public participation.

Don't Leave it All to the Experts

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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Don't Leave it All to the Experts written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environmental Expertise

Author : Esther Turnhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107098742
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Expertise written by Esther Turnhout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the important role that environmental experts play at the science-policy interface, and the complex challenges they face.

Deliberative Systems

Author : John Parkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025397
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Deliberative Systems written by John Parkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.

Turmoil in American Public Policy

Author : Leslie R. Alm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313385378
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Turmoil in American Public Policy written by Leslie R. Alm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy. These are the key questions that this primary textbook for courses on American public policymaking and environmental policymaking addresses and attempts to answer. Turmoil in American Public Policy: Science, Democracy, and the Environment first lays out the basics of the policymaking process in the United States in relation to the substantive issues of environmental policymaking. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, the authors highlight the views and experiences of scientists, especially natural scientists, in their interactions with policymakers and their efforts to harness the findings of their science to rational public policy. The proper role of science and scientists in relation to environmental policymaking hinges on fundamental questions at the intersection of political philosophy and scientific epistemology. How can the experimental nature of the scientific method and the probabilistic expression of scientific results be squared with the normative language of legislation and regulation? If scientists undertake to square the circle by hardening the tentative truths of their scientific models into positive truths to underpin public policy, at what point may they be judged to have exceeded the proper limits of scientific knowledge, relinquished their role as impartial experts, and become partisan advocates demanding too much say in a democratic setting? Providing students—and secondarily policymakers, scientists, and citizen activists—a theoretical and practical knowledge of the means availed by modern American democracy for resolving this tension is the object of this progressively structured textbook.

Rationality and the Environment

Author : Bo Elling
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849772274
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and the Environment written by Bo Elling and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision-making processes. The result is that within these essentially rational, political assessment frameworks, experts are creating and applying scientific knowledge for decision and management purposes that actually have strong ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Yet these rational political frameworks lack the tools to provide guidance on ethical and aesthetic issues that affect the wider public.This revolutionary work argues that ethical and aesthetic dimensions can only be brought into environmental politics and policies by citizens actively taking a stand on the specific matters in question. The author draws on Habermas trisection of rationality as cognitive-instrumental, moral-practical and aesthetic-expressive, to suggest that truly effective environmental policy needs to activate all three approaches and not favour only the rational. To achieve this objective, the author argues that public participation in environmental policy and assessment is necessary to counteract the dictatorship of technical and economic instrumentality in environmental policy - the failure to take ethical and aesthetic rationalities into account - and, more importantly, how such policy is applied on the ground to shape our natural and material world.

Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions

Author : Frans H. J. M. Coenen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140209325X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions by : Frans H. J. M. Coenen

Download or read book Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions written by Frans H. J. M. Coenen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are functional, that is to say they see public participation as a means to an end. Sound solutions to environmental problems require participation beyond experts and political elites. Neglecting information from the public leads to legitimacy questions and potential conflicts. There is a discourse in the literature and in policy practice as to whether decision-making improves in quality as additional relevant information by the public is considered. The promise that public participation holds has to be weighed against the limitations of public participation in terms of costs and interest conflicts. The question that Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions seeks to answer for academics, planners and civil servants in all environmental relevant policy fields is: What restricts and what enables information to hold the ‘promise’ that public participation lead to better environmental decision-making and better outcomes?

Uneasy Alchemy

Author : Barbara L. Allen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262511346
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Uneasy Alchemy written by Barbara L. Allen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How coalitions of citizens and experts have been effective in promoting environmental justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor.

Deliberative Environmental Politics

Author : Walter F. Baber
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Deliberative Environmental Politics written by Walter F. Baber and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking theory and practice, this book explores the potential of deliberative democracy to produce more effective environmental policy.

Knowledge, Power, and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis

Author : Rob Hoppe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351325701
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Power, and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis written by Rob Hoppe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume probes practical dilemmas and competing re- search perspectives in environmental policy analysis. Scholars working in different fields, research traditions, societies, and policy domains offer significant insights into the processes and consequences of environmental policy making. Part 1, "Coping with Boundaries," describes present-day conflict between experts and greater public participation in environmental policy. It shows that the institutionalization of increasingly complex environmental problems has led to a conflict between technocracy and democracy. Part 2, "The Transnational Challenge," examines modes of cooperation between grassroots movements, scientists, and regional authorities in the United States and Canada. These and other modes of cooperation laid the foundations for the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, increased the effectiveness of air pollution treaties, and increased climate change. Part 3, "Bio-Hazards: Policies and Paralysis," deals with environmental prob-lems closest to the everyday concerns of the public at large because they have immediate implications for food safety and other values. Part 4, "The Citizens' Perspective," focuses on citizen vis-a-vis environmental policy, noting that in order to make policies work citizens must be willing and able to participate in policy-making and cooperate in implementing environmental choices. Part 5, "Confronting Ordinary and Expert Knowledge," explores opportunities and constraints affecting public participation in evaluation of science. Part 6, "Developments in Research Programming," addresses such questions as whether scientists still have opportunities to do the research they want without being interrupted or disturbed by policy makers and other stakeholders. Part 7, "Policy Sciences' Aspirations," explores different avenues for improving environmental policy. Volume twelve in the PSRA series should inspire further investigations of the relations among knowledge, power, and participation in environmental policy. It will be of timely interest to environmentalists, policy-makers, scholars, and the general public.