Consensus and global environment governance : deliberative democracy in nature's regime /

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Author / Creator:Baber, Walter F., 1953- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages) : map
Language:English
Series:Earth system governance
Earth system governance.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304886
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Other authors / contributors:Bartlett, Robert V., author.
ISBN:9780262327046
026232704X
0262028735
9780262028738
0262527227
9780262527224
9781336200722
1336200723
9780262327053
0262327058
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:In this book, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach, juristic democracy, emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law; it is rooted in local knowledge and grounded in democratic deliberation and consensus. The aim is to construct a global jurisprudence based on collective will formation. Building on concepts presented in their previous book, the award-winning Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Baber and Bartlett examine in detail the challenges that consensus poses for a system of juristic democracy. Baber and Bartlett analyze the implications of deliberative consensus for rule-bounded behavior, for the accomplishment of basic governance tasks, and for diversity in a politically divided and culturally plural world. They assess social science findings about the potential of small-group citizen panels to contribute to rationalized consensus, drawing on the extensive research conducted on the use of juries in courts of law. Finally, they analyze the place of juristic democracy in a future "consensually federal" system for earth system governance.
Other form:Print version: Baber, Walter F., 1953- Consensus and global environment governance 9780262028738