1st Edition

Deliberative Democracy and the Environment

By Graham Smith Copyright 2003
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Contemporary democracies are frequently criticized for failing to respond adequately to environmental problems and our political institutions are often charged with misrepresenting environmental values in decision-making processes. In this innovative volume, Graham Smith argues that the enhancement and institutionalisation of democratic deliberation will improve reflection on the wide range of... Read more

Introduction  1. Value Pluralism and Environmental Values  2. Environmental Economics and the Internalisation of Environmental Values  3. Deliberative Democracy and Green Political Theory  4. Three Deliberative Models  5. Towards Ecological Democratisation?  Conclusion

Biography

Graham Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Southampton. He is the co-author of Politics and the Environment and has published a numbers of essays on democratic and green political theory.