Essays about: "Erica Von Essen"

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  1. 1. Democracy and Sustainable Development in wildlife management : From ‘stakeholders’ to ‘citizens’ in the Swedish wolf restoration process

    University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Erica von Essen; [2012]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; wildlife management; deliberative democracy; stakeholder; strategic rationality; environmental communication;

    Abstract : In an attempt to lend legitimacy to the troubled wolf project and to root policies in wolf-affected counties, decision-making was decentralized to stakeholder-based county wildlife management delegations in Sweden in 2009. Drawing from Habermas’ critical theory, this paper suggests that a phenomenon of instrumental rationality is currently circumscribing free and open deliberation in these delegations. READ MORE