Democracy and the Environment : Problems and Prospects

Contents: 1. Democracy and the Environment: Congruence and Conflict - Preliminary Reflections (W.M. Lafferty, J. Meadowcroft) 2. Environmental Challenges to Democratic Practice (R. Paehlke) 3. Democracy, the Environment and Public Opinion in Western Europe (S. Witherspoon) 4. Democracy as a Condition for Environmental Policy Success: The Importance of Non-Institutional Factors (M. Jänicke) 5. Democracy and Environmental Ethics (B.Pepperman Taylor) 6. Strategies of Ecological Democratization (J.S. Dryzek) 7. Representative Democracy and the Environment (A. Dobson) 8. Democracy and the Sustainability Transition (T. O'Riordan) 9. Sustainability and Associative Democracy (W. Achterberg) 10. Learning to Manage the Environment (P. Glasbergen) 11. Environmental Policy and the Participation Gap (D.J. Fiorino) 12. Environmental Policy in the European Union: Institutional Dilemmas and Democratic Practice (S. Baker) 13. NGOs as Agents of Public Accountability and Democratization in Intergovernmental Forums (A. Bichsel) 14. Democracy and the Environment: Prospects for Greater Congruence (W.M. Lafferty, J. Meadowcroft) Index Contributors: W. Achterberg, S. Baker, A. Bichsel, A. Dobson, J.S. Dryzek, D.J. Fiorino, P. Gasbergen, M. Jänicke, W.M. Lafferty, J. Meadowcroft, T. O'Riordan, R. Paehlke, B. Pepperman Taylor, S. Witherspoon