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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Frank, 1942-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Citizen participation.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-328) and index.

ISBN:

9786613061874

9781283061872

1283061872

9780822380283

0822380285

OCLC:

245537923