Rationality and the Environment: Decision-making in Environmental Politics and Assessment

ISBN-13: 9781849710787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str.

Bo Elling

Opis

Environmental assessment & management involve the production of scientific knowledge & its use in decision making processes. The result is that within these essentially rational, political assessment frameworks, experts are creating & applying scientific knowledge that has strong ethical & aesthetic dimensions.

Spis treści

Preface * Introduction * The Environment as a Goal * Modernity and Reflexivity * Ecological Modernization * The Environmental Politics of Modernity * Bibliography * Index

O autorze

Bo Elling is a Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research focuses on modern society and environmental planning and regulation, with particular emphasis on SEA for land use planning, SEA at the policy level, and the knowledge and rationality that public participation brings to the SEA process.