Environmental Democracy

by Mason, Michael Paul

• ISBN13: 9780312227005
• ISBN10: 0312227000
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-11-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 and how environmentalist goals and social justice can be achieved together.

Author Biography

Michael Mason is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of North London.

Table of Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations	iv
Acknowledgements	v
Introduction	1	(20)
Conceptualizing Environmental Democracy	21	(43)
Environmental Decision-Making in Western Europe and North America: Democratic Capacity-Building?	64	(36)
Administrative Fairness and Forest Land Decision-Making: A Canadian Experiment in Participatory Environmental Planning	100	(27)
Democratizing Nature? The Political Morality of Wilderness Preservationists	127	(25)
Trade Unions of Environmental Democracy: A Study of the UK Transport and General Workers' Union (with material contributed)	152	(27)
Nigel Morter
Agenda 21 and Local Democracy: A British Search for New Participatory Forms	179	(59)
Conclusion: Global Environmental Democracy	212	(26)
Notes	238	(6)
References	244	(18)
Index	262