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Citizens, experts, and the environment : the politics of local knowledge /

Claims that the problematic communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens is best remedied by a renewal of local citizen participation in deliberative structures.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Frank, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I Citizens and Experts in the Risk Society. 1. Democratic Prospects in an Age of Expertise Confronting the Technocratic Challenge. 2. Professional Knowledge and Citizen Participation: Rethinking Expertise. 3. Environmental Crisis and the Technocratic Challenge Expertise in the Risk Society. 4. The Return of the Particular Scientific Inquiry and Local Knowledge in Postpositivist Perspective
  • PART II Environmental Politics in the Public Sphere: Technical versus Cultural Rationality. 5. Science and Politics in Environmental Regulation:The Politicization of Expertise. 6. Confronting Experts in the Public Sphere: The Environmental Movement as Cultural Politics. 7. Not in My Backyard: Risk Assessment and the Politics of Cultural Rationality
  • PART III Local Knowledge and Participatory Inquiry: Methodological Practices for Political Empowerment. 8. Citizens as Local Experts: Popular Epidemiology and Participatory Resource Mapping. 9. Community Inquiry and Local Knowledge : The Political and Methodological Foundations of Participatory Research. 10. Ordinary Local Knowledge From Potato Farming to Environmental Protection
  • PART IV Discursive Institutions and Policy Epistemics. 11. Discursive Institutions for Environmental Policy Making: Participatory Inquiry as Civic Discovery. 12. The Environments of Argument Deliberative Practices and Policy Epistemics
  • Appendixes.