Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect Participatory Governance in Sustainable Communities
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Professor Frank Fischer has been Distinguished Professor of Politics and Global Affairs at Rutgers University and is currently Senior Faculty Fellow at the University of Kassel in Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy Research at the Free University of Berlin. He has published 15 books on public policy and environmental politics and taught and lectured around the world. He is also co-editor of Critical Policy Studies journal and one of the founders of the International Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference. He also received the Harold Lasswell Award for contributions to the field of Public Policy Studies from Policy Studies Organization.The book is a work of impressive scholarship that presents an engaging overview of a diverse range of green political theories.
Chris Shaw, University of Sussex
Democracy means that the question of whether the participatory models of governance outlined here might offer a way through such crisis-and, crucially for the argument, whether they might do so in time-remains necessarily open. Fischer brings together a helpful analysis of the relevant theoretical perspectives and of various efforts underway that take the challenges of climate change seriously but that also might help us to keep open the terms in which to understand them.
Sophie Adams, University of New South Wales
This book undertakes a valuable assessment of the challenge presented to democratic political systems by the future climate crisis.
Thomas O'Brien, Democratization
The book's discussion is accessible and engaging...Fischer provides an excellent introduction to the topic of participatory processes, interspersing case-study material with an overview of key theoretical insights from Dryzek, Blühdorn, and Bookchin, amongst others.
Peter Tangney, Environmental Politics
Penetrating, illuminating, and ultimately hopeful! Frank Fischer's hard thinking for the hard times that lie ahead revitalizes both democratic theory and green theorybut it does far more. By grounding his theory in vibrant socio-ecological movements, from community forestry to transition towns to ecovillages the world over, Fischer uncovers the new life already emerging in the cracks of failing systems. Think of this book as political survival gear for the coming decades.
Karen Litfin, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
An eminently important book on the politics of climate change at a time when liberal representative democracy has come under severe pressure from a number of sides.
Ingolfur Blühdorn, Head of the Institute for Social Change and Stability, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Facing up to the climate crisis, Fischer insightfully poses afresh long-standing, yet recently neglected, questions in environmental thought. His new book thus offers an important point of departure that sharply challenges the current orthodoxy on democracy and the environment.
Douglas Torgerson, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Trent University
As more individuals and societies face the hard realities of the intensifying global climate emergency, Frank Fischer offers a critical and comprehensive environmental political theory for coping with the ethical and political challenges of the climate crisis. It carefully outlines pragmatic approaches to participatory governance and environmental democracy that will succeed. While not giving up on global agreements or national policies, his timely analysis returns us to local intentional communities to create fair, practical and robust ways of life to cope with rapid climate change.
Timothy W. Luke, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.