Democratic norms of earth system governance : deliberative politics in the anthropocene / Walter F. Baber, Robert V. Bartlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baber, Walter F., 1953- author.

Bartlett, Robert V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth System Governance Project.

Environmental policy--International cooperation.

Environmental policy.

Democracy and environmentalism.

Environmental policy--Citizen participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Deliberative democracy is well-suited to the challenges of governing in the Anthropocene. But deliberative democratic practices are only suited to these challenges to the extent that five prerequisites - empoweredness, embeddedness, experimentality, equivocality, and equitableness - are successfully institutionalized. Governance must be: created by those it addresses, applicable equally to all, capable of learning from (and adapting to) experience, rationally grounded, and internalized by those who adopt and experience it. This book analyzes these five major normative principles, pairing each with one of the Earth System Governance Project's analytical problems to provide an in-depth discussion of the minimal conditions for environmental governance that can be truly sustainable. It is ideal for scholars and graduate students in global environmental politics, earth system governance, and international environmental policy. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

1 Democratic Governance in the Anthropocene: Equivocal, Experimental, Equitable, Empowered, Embedded

1.1 Promise

1.2 Perils

1.3 Progress

1.4 Back to the Future (Already in Progress)

1.5 Institutionalizing Deliberative Environmental Democracy

1.5.1 Empowered

1.5.2 Embedded

1.5.3 Experimental

1.5.4 Equivocal

1.5.5 Equitable

2 Toward Consensual Earth System Governance

2.1 Conceptualizing the Problem

2.2 Transparency in Earth System Governance

2.2.1 The Architecture of Transparency

2.2.2 The Agents of Transparency

2.2.3 Transparency and Adaptiveness

2.2.4 Transparency and Accountability

2.2.5 Transparency, Access, and Allocation

2.3 A Way Forward

3 Empowered Democratic Agency in the Anthropocene: Reconciling People to Nature and Each Other

3.1 Agency before the Anthropocene: Slaves, Servants, and Selves

3.2 Agency in the Anthropocene: Bureaucrats and Billionaires, Academics and Activists

3.2.1 Of Bureaucrats

3.2.2 Of Billionaires

3.2.3 Of Academics

3.2.4 Of Activists

3.3 Agency beyond the Anthropocene: From the Legal and Political to the Moral

3.3.1 Moral Agency

3.3.2 Knowledge and Agency

3.3.3 Autonomy and Agency

3.3.4 Capability and Agency

3.4 Anthropogenic Agency: Nature in the Flesh

4 Embedded Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene: The Structure of Institutionalized Ecological Rationality

4.1 Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene: Principles, Practices, and Places

4.1.1 Flexibility

4.1.2 Open Texture

4.1.3 Embeddedness

4.2 Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene: Of People and Their Food

4.2.1 Embeddedness

4.2.2 Flexibility

4.2.3 Open Texture.

4.3 Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene: The ''Foodshed'' Partnership

4.4 Governance Architecture in the Anthropocene: Lessons of the Oculus

5 Experimental Adaptiveness in the Anthropocene: Reconciling Communities and Institutions to Environmental Change

5.1 A Brief History of the Future

5.2 Living in the Future: The Governance Administrator's Dilemma

5.2.1 Flexibility

5.2.2 Collaboration

5.2.3 Deliberation

5.3 Living in the Future: The Citizen's Dilemma

5.4 Implications

6 Equivocal Democratic Accountability in the Anthropocene: Where Effective Legislatures Do Not Exist

6.1 Earth System Governance Accountability in the EU: The Challenges

6.2 Delegation and Oversight in the European Union

6.3 In Search of Policy Norms: A Deliberative Model of Administrative Accountability

6.4 Deliberative Practice and Administrative Accountability in Global Environmental Governance

6.5 Equivocal Accountability in the Anthropocene

7 Equitable Access and Allocation in the Anthropocene: Reconciling Today and Tomorrow

7.1 Access and Earth System Governance

7.2 Allocation and Earth System Governance

7.3 Access and Allocation in the Anthropocene

7.4 Democratic Conceptualizations

8 Earth System Democracy: Governing Humanity in the Anthropocene

8.1 Agency and Empowerment

8.2 Architecture and Embeddedness

8.3 Adaptation and Experimentation

8.4 Accountability and Equivocality

8.5 Access, Allocation, and Equity

8.6 Final Thoughts

Afterword: Governance by Uncommon Global Environmental Law?

A.1 Veterem Traditionem

A.2 Novus Traditio

A.3 Finalis Cogitata

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Afterword

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-108-91301-6

1-108-92496-4

1-108-92365-8

OCLC:

1295278131