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RESEARCH ARTICLE: Democratic Deliberation and Environmental Practice: The Case of Natural Resource Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2010

Walter F. Baber
Walter F. Baber*
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Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Long Beach, California
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Walter F. Baber, Public Policy and Administration, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA, 90840; (phone) 562-985-5747; (fax) 562-985-4672; (e-mail) [email protected]
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Abstract

In this article, techniques of deliberative democracy are described and their applications to problems of natural resource management are discussed. It is argued that deliberative approaches to resource management achieve a higher level of both ecological rationality and political sustainability than do either elite decision making or interest-group bargaining.

Environmental Practice 12:195–201 (2010)

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Environmental Practice , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 195 - 201
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Copyright © National Association of Environmental Professionals 2010

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