Book contents
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Reviews
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sustainability and Decisions
- 2 Sustainability Evolving
- 3 How We Make Decisions
- 4 Facts and Values
- 5 What Is a Good Decision?
- 6 Decisions and Conflicts
- 7 Reform or Transformation?
- 8 Influencing Decisions
- 9 Influencing the Conversation
- Notes
- References
- Index
9 - Influencing the Conversation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2023
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Reviews
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sustainability and Decisions
- 2 Sustainability Evolving
- 3 How We Make Decisions
- 4 Facts and Values
- 5 What Is a Good Decision?
- 6 Decisions and Conflicts
- 7 Reform or Transformation?
- 8 Influencing Decisions
- 9 Influencing the Conversation
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Individual decisions have to be aggregated to make group decisions. Markets aggregate decisions by consumers and producers into prices that might reflect social values. But markets allow and generate inequalities, and many aspects of human well-being and the environment do not have market prices. In large societies, direct voting on some policies is possible but most voting is for representatives who become part of a larger policy system. Deliberation is an ideal that underpins most justifications for democracy. It can be linked effectively to scientific assessments at the local to regional level. Ways to use deliberation at the national or global scales require further experimentation. In the United States, high levels of polarization challenge the idea of public deliberation. New technologies will create further challenges for sustainability decisions. Identifying strategies to move forward requires understanding variation in the public and drawing on strategies for nonviolent social change and conflict resolution.
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- Decisions for SustainabilityFacts and Values, pp. 146 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023