Original scientific paper
TOWARDS POLITICAL ECOLOGY: FORMS OF COMMUNICATION AND DECISION–MAKING IN THE DIFFICULTY BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALLY DUBIOUS TECHNOLOGIES AND/OR AARHUS CONVENTION
Andrej A. Lukšić
; Faculty of Social Studies, Ljubljana
Abstract
The article deals with the issue of transformation of the communication process and the process of decision–making in the field of environmental protection as one of important guidelines for solving environmental problems. Environmental improvement of the thermo–electric power plant Šoštanj illustrates that initiatives for the transformation of the process of decision–making have been motivated by the nature of the project way of management, and that the motifs of Aarhus Convention, that open the door of the communication process, have been grounded on the transformation of the relation of political power and building of democratic communication forms and forms of decision–making that is at this moment hindered by the parliamentary system of government of industrial and developed states.
Keywords
the process of decision–making; technology; environmental pollution; environmental conflict; Aarhus Convention; political ecology; democratization
Hrčak ID:
141327
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Publication date:
15.9.2001.
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