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"This book discusses political controversies involved in global biodiversity policy, and the practical opportunities that are opened up in solving them through increased citizen participation and democratic deliberation. It examines the emerging practice of deliberative global governance and its political consequences. The collection focuses on the intersection of global biodiversity policy and the promise of deliberative democracy. In doing so, it examines how new discursive logics emerge in global citizen deliberation that might destabilize the impasses encountered in biodiversity negotiations, how a ""global citizens’ voice"" emerges in deliberative processes despite the dominance of national institutions in the lives of those citizens, the most effective and innovative ways to amplify the results of large-scale deliberations to policy makers and broader audiences, and how future citizen deliberations can be designed to make them fair, feasible and consequential processes, in general and for biodiversity issues in particular. This highly original contribution to the field provides theoretical discussions, empirical analyses and local experiences of biodiversity policy, making it an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental politics, governance and sociology, particularly those interested in deliberative democracy, citizen participation and biodiversity."

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Author:   Mikko Rask (Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland) ,  Richard Worthington (Professor of Politics, Pomona College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138700604

ISBN 10:   1138700606
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   01 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction 1. Understanding the Demand for Global Citizen Deliberation on Biodiversity Policy 2. WWViews on Biodiversity – New Methodological Developments and Ambitions Part 2 Global Biodiversity Policy Perspectives 3. The Variegated Landscape of Biodiversity Policy 4. Preserving Biodiversity in the European Union 5. Biodiversity and Sustainability in Nepal: A Role for Deliberation? Part 3 Constructing A Global Citizen's Voice 6. Constructing the ‘Citizen’ in Global Deliberations 7. The Role of Gender in Global Citizen Deliberation 8. A Mutual Learning Approach to WWViews 9. Bridging Global-Local Knowledge Gaps in Public Deliberation Part 4 The Art of Amplification 10. Media Strategy and Networks at the Margins of Biodiversity Governance 11. Amplifying Deliberative Results to Access Policy Networks: The Role of Informal Science Education Institutions Part 5 Reflective Institutional Design 12. ‘Mini-publics’, Competence and Reliable Decisions 13. Standardizing Heterogeneity: Negotiating Designs for Transnational Citizen Engagement 14. The Circulation of Ideas: A Discursive Deliberative Knowledge System for biodiversity policy Part 6 Conclusions 15. Global Citizen Deliberation – A Long Shot toward Sustainable Biodiversity Policy?

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Mikko Rask is adjunct Professor and senior researcher at University of Helsinki, Finland Richard Worthington is Professor at Pomona College, California, USA

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