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Citizens, Experts, and the Environment The Politics of Local Knowledge

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ISBN-10: 0822326221

ISBN-13: 9780822326229

Edition: 2000

Authors: Frank Fischer

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface
Citizens and Experts in the Risk Society
Democratic Prospects in an Age of Expertise: Confronting the Technocratic Challenge
Professional Knowledge and Citizen Participation: Rethinking Expertise
Environmental Crisis and the Technocratic Challenge: Expertise in the Risk Society
The Return of the Particular: Scientific Inquiry and Local Knowledge in Postpositivist Perspective
Environmental Politics in the Public Sphere: Technical versus Cultural Rationality
Science and Politics in Environmental Regulation: The Politicization of Expertise
Confronting Experts in the Public Sphere: The Environmental Movement as Cultural Politics
Not in My Backyard: Risk Assessment and the Politics of Cultural Rationality
Local Knowledge and Participatory Inquiry: Methodological Practices for Political Empowerment
Citizens as Local Experts: Popular Epidemiology and Participatory Resource Mapping
Community Inquiry and Local Knowledge: The Political and Methodological Foundations of Participatory Research
Ordinary Local Knowledge: From Potato Farming to Environmental Protection
Discursive Institutions and Policy Epistemics
Discursive Institutions for Environmental Policy Making: Participatory Inquiry as Civic Discovery
The Environments of Argument: Deliberative Practices and Policy Epistemics
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index