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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.
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Introduction * Conceptualising Decision-Making in Western Europe and North America: Democratic Capacity Building? * Administrative Fairness and Forest Land Decision-Making: A Canadian Experiment in Participatory Environmental Planning * Democratising Nature? The Political Morality of Wilderness Preservationists * Trade Unions and Environmental Democracy: A Study of the UK Transport and General Worker's Union (with Material Contributed by Nigel Morter) * Agenda 21 and Local Democracy: A British Search for New Participatory Forms * Conclusion: Global Environmental Democracy * Notes * References * Index
Biography
Michael Mason is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of North London.
'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
