Environmental Democracy Facing Uncertainty

Author:   Marc Mormont ,  Cécilia Claeys ,  Marie Jacqué
Publisher:   Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   16
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9789052018553


Pages:   185
Publication Date:   30 October 2012
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This collective work provides a reflexive reading of environmental democracy as a new method of governance of the contemporary ecological issues that declining biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development present. The authors examine the links between the environment and democracy by questioning the status of actors, the manner of their involvement, the various ways of mobilising knowledge and the mechanisms of dialogue and decision-making based on study cases observed in different national contexts (Italy, France, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Canada and Brazil). This international approach sheds light on the means of appropriation of environmental democracy on a local level and its ability to promote universal characteristics or to standardise the connection to the environment and politics. The originality of this work comes, among other things, from its transversality, associating texts with differing theoretical outlooks and methodology in an innovative way. Through this perspective on-going processes of redefining environmental problems are revealed via the prisms of risks and uncertainty, thus assigning them a new role in aiding decision-making in a sociology that is in turn critical and committed.

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Author:   Marc Mormont ,  Cécilia Claeys ,  Marie Jacqué
Publisher:   Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes
Imprint:   Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9789052018553


ISBN 10:   9052018553
Pages:   185
Publication Date:   30 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Contents: Cécilia Claeys/Marie Jacqué: Introduction – Hilary Tovey: «Collective» and «Personal» Environmentalism. Implications for Democracy of the Greening of Citizenship – Luigi Pellizzoni: Mistaking Publics. A Challenge for Environmental Governance – Raymond Murphy: Partial Knowledge in the Knowledge Society. A Case Study of an Extreme Weather Disaster and the Mitigation of Climate Change – Martina Schäfer/Tina Boeckmann: Integration of Popular Knowledge in Sustainability Research – Audrey Richard-Ferroudji/Olivier Barreteau: Assembling Different Forms of Knowledge for Participative Water Management. Insights from the Concert’eau Game – Maria Tysiachniouk/Errol Meidinger: Importing Democracy. Promoting Participatory Decision Making in Russian Forest Communities – Angela Duarte Damasceno Ferreira/Alfio Brandenburg/Almir Sandro Rodrigues/Catherine Dumora/Eduardo Brito Santos/Gustavo Pinheiro/Osvaldo Heller da Silva: Empowerment among Family Farmers in Southern Brazil. The Social Construction of Durability as a Model for Agriculture, Rural Areas and Society – Pieter Leroy: Participatory Approaches in Policy-relevant Knowledge Production.

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Cécilia Claeys, Associate Professor at the Aix-Marseille University, is a member of the LPED (Laboratoire Population Environnement et Développement). Her researches focus on participative democracy and socio-technical controversies surrounding environmental and risk issues. As such, they raise in particular the question of the strength of the link and the trust between forums (involving experts, activists and stakeholders) and the general public (communities, users, etc.). Marie Jacqué, Associate Professor at the Aix-Marseille University, is a member of the LPED. Her area of study covers the changes in citizen commitment, as shown by the rise of discourses and social practices defined as ecocitizen ones. Her analyses focus on the diffusion of a new framework of environmental knowledge, as well as how it has spread into governmental policies, especially those in relation to nature and natural resources management.

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