Consensus and Global Environmental Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature's Regime

by Robert V. Bartlett and Walter F. Baber

Book Overview

An examination of the potential and limitations of deliberative consensus as a way to achieve effective international environmental governance.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262527227
• ISBN13: 9780262527224
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher