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Consensus and Global Environmental Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature's Regime (Earth System Governance) by Walter F. Baber; Robert V. Bartlett; Frank Biermann; Oran R. Young is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An examination of the potential and limitations of deliberative consensus as a way to achieve effective international environmental governance. In this book, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach, juristic democracy, emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law; it is rooted in local knowledge and grounded in democratic deliberation and consensus. The aim is to construct a global jurisprudence based on collective will formation. Building on concepts presented in their previous book, the award-winning Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Baber and Bartlett examine in detail the challenges that consensus poses for a system of juristic democracy. Baber and Bartlett analyze the implications of deliberative consensus for rule-bounded behavior, for the accomplishment of basic governance tasks, and for diversity in a politically divided and culturally plural world. They assess social science findings about the potential of small-group citizen panels to contribute to

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Author
Walter F. Baber; Robert V. Bartlett; Frank Biermann; Oran R. Young
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262327046
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Law, Social Science

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