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  • Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance

    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    Deliberative democracy is well-suited to the challenges of governing in the Anthropocene. But deliberative democratic practices are only suited to these challenges to the extent that five prerequisites - empoweredness, embeddedness, experimentality, equivocality, and equitableness - are successfully institutionalized. Governance must be: created by those it addresses, applicable equally to all, ... Read more

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  • Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance

    Democracy beyond Democracy

    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance (any environmental-ecological-sustainable democracy). For any democracy to remain democratic, some aspects must be beyond democracy and must not be allowed to be subjected to any ordinary democratic collective choice processes shy of consensus. Real, established rights ... Read more

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    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance

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  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
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    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

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