Aligning Commitments: Public Participation, International Decision-Making, and the Environment

From international principles to local practices: a socio-legal framing of public participation research

“…1 The Rio Declaration also introduced the Precautionary Principle, another tool for international environmental governance, which invokes transparency in decisionmaking processes. Although principles of ESD are not legally binding of themselves, by incorporating them into national legislation, a government creates an interesting legal dynamic that directs attention to the way these principles are then enacted at the national and intra-national level (Maurer et al 2003;Banakar and Travers 2005).…”

“…Principles that embody agreed norms also provide strategic leverage by creating new ideas of what is possible and acceptable, and can encourage social change by sending a powerful signal to the wider community about the legitimacy of a particular issue (Maurer et al 2003).…”

Cross-cultural education for sustainability: development of an introduction to sustainability course

“…The values inherent in social processes determines the equity in distribution of outcomes and preservation or destruction of other systems necessary for human survival. Internet sites useful for this theme include WRI [50], La Viña et al [17], Maurer et al [19], Global Reporting Initiative [9], Duke University Perkins Library [4], UNECE [25], and UNEP.Net [30].…”