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Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality
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Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality Hardcover - 2005

by Walter F. Baber; Robert V. Bartlett


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In Deliberative Environmental Politics, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett link political theory with the practice of environmental politics, arguing that the deliberative turn in democratic theory presents an opportunity to move beyond the policy stalemates of interest-group liberalism and offers a foundation for reconciling rationality, strong democracy, and demanding environmentalism. Deliberative democracy, which presumes that the essence of democracy is deliberation--thoughtful and discursive public participation in decision making--rather than voting, interest aggregation, or rights, has the potential to produce more environmentally sound policy decisions and a more ecologically rational form of environmental governance.

Baber and Bartlett defend deliberative democracy's relevance to environmental politics in the twenty-first century against criticisms from other theorists. They critically examine three major models for deliberative democracy--those of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, and advocates of full liberalism such as Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, and James Bohman--and analyze the implications of each of these approaches for ecologically rational environmental politics as well as for institutions, citizens, experts, and social movements. In order to establish that democracy is ecologically sustainable and that environmental protection can (and must) become a norm of culture rather than a mere fact of government, they argue, new models of ecological deliberation and deliberative environmentalism are required.

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Hargrove (2000, 3) laments that decades after Earth Day, the environmental movement is still plagued by a serious gap between theory and practice.

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  • Title Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality
  • Author Walter F. Baber; Robert V. Bartlett
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Date October 1, 2005
  • ISBN 9780262025874 / 0262025876
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.14 x 0.73 in (23.67 x 15.60 x 1.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Environmental policy, Democracy and science
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004065619
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.72

About the author

Robert V. Bartlett is Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont.

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