Deliberative ecological economics for sustainability governance

We discuss the recent emergence of "deliberative ecological economics", a field that highlights the potential of deliberation for improving environmental governance. We locate the emergence of this literature in the long concern in ecological economics over the policy mplications of limite...

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Autores: Zografos, Christos|||0000-0002-0927-4388, Howarth, Richard B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:147443
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/147443
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/su2113399
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sustainability governance
Preference formation
Deliberative democracy
Environmental decision-making
Ecological economics
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Sumario:We discuss the recent emergence of "deliberative ecological economics", a field that highlights the potential of deliberation for improving environmental governance. We locate the emergence of this literature in the long concern in ecological economics over the policy mplications of limited views of human action and its encounter with deliberative democracy scholarship and the model of communicative rationality as an alternative to utilitarianism. Considering criticisms over methods used and the focus of research in deliberative decision-making, we put orward a research agenda for deliberative ecological economics. Given the promising potential of deliberative processes for improving the effectiveness and legitimacy of environmental decision-making, work in this area could help advance both theory and practice in environmental governance.