Governing Biodiversity through Democratic Deliberation
In focusing on the intersection of global biodiversity policy and the promise of deliberative democracy, the contributors to this volume examine how new discursive logics emerge in global citizen deliberation that might destabilize the impasses encountered in biodiversity negotiations. The book explores how a global citizens voice emerges in deliberative processes despite the dominance of national institutions in the lives of those citizens, and the most effective and innovative ways to amplify the results of large-scale deliberations to policy makers and broader audiences. It looks at how future citizen deliberations can be designed to make them fair, feasible and consequential processes, in general and for biodiversity issues in particular.
This highly original contribution to the field provides theoretical discussions, empirical analyses and local experiences of biodiversity policy, making it an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental politics, governance and sociology, particularly those interested in deliberative democracy, citizen participation and biodiversity.
Mikko Rask is Adjunct Professor and Senior Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Richard Worthington is Professor of Politics at Pomona College, California, USA.
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Governing Biodiversity through Democratic Deliberation
Edited by
Mikko Rask and Richard Worthington
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Contents
PART I
Introduction
MIKKO RASK AND RICHARD WORTHINGTON
BJRN BEDSTED, SREN GRAM, MARIE LOUISE JRGENSEN AND LARS KLVER
PART II
Global biodiversity policy perspectives
RICHARD WORTHINGTON AND ROSE EGELHOFF
SYLVAIN GALLAIS
JAILAB KUMAR RAI, RAHUL KARKI AND RICHARD WORTHINGTON
PART III
Constructing a global citizens voice
LOUISE PHILLIPS, BIRGIT JGER, ERLING JELSE AND ANNIKA AGGER
RDIGER GOLDSCHMIDT, DAVID TOMBLIN AND MIKKO RASK
KATRIN VOHLAND, MARTIN KNAPP, EVA PATZSCHKE, MALTE TIMPTE AND RENE ZIMMER
NAOYUKI MIKAMI AND EKOU YAGI
PART IV
The art of amplification
HENRY GEDDES AND SU YOUNG CHOI
GRETCHEN GANO AND DAVID SITTENFELD
PART V
Reflecting institutional design
JAMES K. WONG
NINA AMELUNG
VANESSA LISTON
PART VI
Conclusions
RICHARD WORTHINGTON AND MIKKO RASK
Annika Agger is Associate Professor in Public Administration at the Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University. She has written articles and contributions to books on how to create institutional settings for public deliberations. Moreover, she has worked as a facilitator in various collaborative and participatory citizen projects.
Nina Amelung is a sociologist currently working on her PhD thesis, Democracy Under Construction: The Micropolitics of Coordinating Transnational Public Engagement at the Technische Universitt Berlin. She is a visiting scholar at Gothenburg University and at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is interested in the role of the public and democracy in transnational contexts.
Bjrn Bedsted is Head of the Danish Board of Techology International and has been working with the DBT since 2004 after finishing his MA in social anthropology. He has assessed technology in various fields, and given advice to policy makers at the local, national, European and global level, often using a variety of citizen participation methods developed at the DBT. He was the global coordinator of WWViews on Global Warming in 2009 and WWViews on Biodiversity in 2012.
Su Young Choi is a doctoral student in the Communication Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include cultural studies, political economy and ecology, and media ethnography in East Asian contexts. She has published in Cybercommunication (2010).
Rose Egelhoff is a freelance writer based in southern California in the United States, and a graduate of Pomona College with a major in biology. An internship with the Washington, DC WWViews on Biodiversity deliberation in 2012 led to increasing involvement in biodiversity policy and deliberative democracy research, and eventually to her participation in writing this book.
Sylvain Gallais completed a first PhD (in international economics) at F-Rabelais University and Paris IX University and a second PhD (in political science) at the FNSP (Paris). He specialized in citizens participation in technology assessment, co-founding two research teams. He is now teaching at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University.
Gretchen Gano is a research fellow in the Science, Technology and Society Initiative at the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds graduate degrees from Arizona State University (PhD) and Rutgers University (MPP and MLIS). She is active in the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) Network and was the project manager for the Massachusetts site of World Wide Views on Biodiversity.
Henry Geddes is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work deals with cultural industries and the way communication mediates ecology and social change in Latin America. His research on media, tourism, and ecology in Quintana Roo, Mexico was supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (forthcoming book).
Sren Gram is a cultural sociologist and a senior project manager at the Danish Board of Technology. Before joining the DBT in 1997 he worked as a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. At the DBT he has worked with broad range of dialogue methodologies involving different stakeholders. He has a focus on the natural environment and has been the driving force in many projects related to adaptation to climate change and biodiversity loss.
