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Rationality and the environment :

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Rationality and the environment :

[Book]

decision-making in environmental politics and assessment /

Bo Elling.

Sterling, VA :

Earthscan,

©2008.

1 online resource (xi, 281 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index.

The environment as a goal -- Modernity and reflexivity -- Ecological modernization -- The environmental politics of modernity.

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"Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision making processes. The result is that within these essentially rational, political assessment frameworks, experts are creating and applying scientific knowledge for decision and management purposes that actually have strong ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Yet these rational political frameworks lack the tools to provide guidance on ethical and aesthetic issues that affect the wider public." "This revolutionary work argues that ethical and aesthetic dimensions can only be brought into environmental politics and policies by citizens actively taking a stand on the specific matters in question. The author draws on Habermas' trisection of rationality as cognitive-instrumental, moral-practical and aesthetic-expressive, to suggest that truly effective environmental policy needs to activate all three approaches and not favor only the rational. To achieve this objective, the author argues that public participation in environmental policy and assessment is necessary to counteract the dictatorship of technical and economic instrumentality in environmental policy the failure to take ethical and aesthetic rationalities into account and, more importantly, how such policy is applied on the ground to shape our natural and material world."--Jacket.

Rationality and the environment.

9781844075249

Decision making-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental policy-- Citizen participation.

Environmental policy.

Political science-- Decision making.

Environnement-- Politique gouvernementale-- Participation des citoyens.

Environnement-- Politique gouvernementale.

Prise de décision-- Aspect moral.

Science politique-- Prise de décision.

Decision making-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental policy-- Citizen participation.

Environmental policy.

Political science-- Decision making.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.

SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)

POL-- 044000

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SCI-- 026000

Elling, Bo.

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