The ‘success’ of sustainability is often premised on public participation and consensus among members of diverse communities. An analysis of two experiments in participatory governance in Tasmania underpinned by explicit commitments to sustainability and by tacit investments in deliberative democracy allows detailed reflection on claims about the efficacy of deliberative democracy, and encourages speculation about whether and to what extent an alternative model of agonistic pluralism may better accommodate conflicts in communities wrestling with resource use and distribution.
History
Publication title
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pagination
461-472
ISSN
0020-2754
Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Rights statement
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