Abstract
Deliberative ecological economics refers to the conceptualisation and application of group-based discussion processes with stakeholders or citizens to attend to issues surrounding ecological resources, including their sociocultural, justice and governance aspects. I first discuss deliberation as a concept and review key reasons why ecological economists advocate deliberative research and policy. These include epistemic reasons relating to the complexity of environmental issues, uncertainty of environmental knowledge, and value-laden nature of concepts such as sustainability. Motivations for deliberation also relate to the nature of values as multidimensional, meaning it is problematic to compare different values using a single yardstick, and value conflicts cannot be satisfactorily addressed using analytical methods alone. I discuss deliberative democratic, analytical-deliberative, interpretive-deliberative, and psychometric-deliberative approaches to help address these issues, and finally consider various avenues for future deliberative ecological economic research.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics |
| Editors | Emilio Padilla Rosa, Jesús Ramos-Martín |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Chapter | 18 |
| Pages | 103-111 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781802200416 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781802200409 |
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| Publication status | Published - 01 Jan 2023 |
Keywords
- Deliberative democracy
- Incommensurability
- Post-normal science
- Valuation methods
- Value theory