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  • 2 - On Discourse-Intensive Approaches to Environmental Decision-Making: Applying Social Theory to Practice

  • from Part I - Methods
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 29-46

  • Summary

    The rise of multi-party processes in which people with quite different ties to a region, natural resource-related industry, or environmental issue work collaboratively to hammer out mutually acceptable agreements is arguably one of the biggest shifts in environmental management over the past twenty-five years. This chapter engages in some sensemaking around this diverse and evolving phenomenon in two ways. First, an approach to designing collaborative natural resource-related discourse with a particularly strong theoretical foundation (Collaborative Learning) is presented to illustrate how theory is manifest in practice. Second a recent best practices/common features list is examined through the perspectives of four social science theorists: Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, and Muzafer Sherif. The practical recommendations that emerge from this list is largely consistent with the larger social and communicative dynamics articulated by these theorists.