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Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product
of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business,
policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of
looking at technological and environmental uncertainty. In this
definitive volume, four of the world's leading risk researchers
present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approaches to
understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor paradigm'.
They show how risk studies must incorporate the competing
interests, values, and rationalities of those involved and find a
balance of trust and acceptable risk. Their work points to a
comprehensive and significant new theory of risk and uncertainty
and of the decision making process they require. The implications
for social, political, and environmental theory and practice are
enormous. Winner of the 2000-2002 Outstanding Publication Award of
the Section on Environment and Technology of the American
Sociological Association
Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the
small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps
became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a
three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public
participation from the United States and Europe came together to
address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary
environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed
in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an
adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can
we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All
the invited scholars from academia, international research
institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental
principle: For environmental policies to be effective and
legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be
affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no
technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement,
environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was
preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a
framework for evaluating different models of public participation
in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of
the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve
as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has
witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or
political science communities in issues of public participation.
Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the
small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps
became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a
three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public
participation from the United States and Europe came together to
address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary
environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed
in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an
adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can
we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All
the invited scholars from academia, international research
institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental
principle: For environmental policies to be effective and
legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be
affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no
technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement,
environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was
preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a
framework for evaluating different models of public participation
in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of
the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve
as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has
witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or
political science communities in issues of public participation.
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