Environmental Democracy

Through a wide range of case studies, Mason reveals just how sensitive we all must be to styles of power, vulnerability and resilience in any democratic transition to sustainability. This is a fine book' - Timothy O'Riordan, Professor of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, and Associate Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. Civic self-determination and ecological sustainability are widely accepted as two of the most important public goals. This book explains how they can be combined. Using vivid and telling case studies from around the world, it shows how liberal rights can include both ecological and social conditions for collective decision-making - environmentalist goals and social justice can be achieved together. Integrating theory and original case studies, the book makes a very significant contribution to the fundamentals of how environmental democracy can be advanced at all levels. Cogently argued and engaged, "Environmental Democracy" provides a superb teaching text and a source of ideas and persuasive arguments for the politically and environmentally engaged. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in politics, policy studies, environmental studies, geography and social science.

ISBN 1853836176   Pages 272 ISBN13 9781853836176 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 408 Imprint Earthscan Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Jul 1999   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2002510889   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 333.7   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Acronyms and Abbreviations
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction		1
1		Conceptualizing Environmental Democracy		21
2		Environmental Decision-Making in Western Europe and North America: Democratic Capacity-Building?		64
3		Administrative Fairness and Forest Land Decision-Making: A Canadian Experiment in Participatory Environmental Planning		100
4		Democratizing Nature? The Political Morality of Wilderness Preservationists		127
5		Trade Unions and Environmental Democracy: A Study of the UK Transport and General Workers' Union by Michael Mason and Nigel Morter		152
6		Agenda 21 and Local Democracy: A British Search for New Participatory Forms		179
		Conclusion: Global Environmental Democracy		212
		Notes		238
		References		244
		Index		262

'A fine book.' Timothy O'Riordan, Professor of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, and Associate Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. 'This is a sustainability discourse that is more self-aware and prepared to engage with the very real choices about how we ought to live, and to tackle the most enduring obstacles to ecological integrity and social justice on a global scale.' Urban Policy and Research

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