Sustainable Development through Deliberative Expertise
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: public policy and planning studies; public administration and institutional theory with a strong empirical focus on sustainable development; public officials; institutional change
Interests: environmental policy; the relation between values and facts, science, and policy, together with institutional dynamics and change; deliberative capacities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The complexity and seriousness of sustainability problems, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, require active involvement of different kinds of expertise with deliberative qualities. Sustainable development through deliberative expertise may take place in different areas, for example, environmental experts in public administrations, legal professionals in environmental courts, and scientists advising public policy makers. Deliberative expertise is understood as a process where explicitly justified claims of truth and correctness are presented in a context and public interaction, support, and legitimacy are sought, with the aim being to contribute to and stimulate green transformation. Thus, it is not just about listening to scientists but also interpreting and making sense of scientific evidence regarding concrete policy processes and decision-making situations. However, due to the abstraction and limitation of scientific data and the necessity of applying evidence in concrete situations and local contexts, the use of local and praxis-based knowledge plays an important role in such processes. This Special Issue welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions related to “Sustainable Development through Deliberative Expertise” from different social science areas, such as political science, sociology, public administration, planning studies, human geography, pedagogics, ethnography, psychology, environmental law research, and media and communication studies. The following themes are of key-interest and can be approached from both empirical and normative-constructive senses:
- Deliberative expertise in environmental policy and planning processes;
- Deliberative interaction between partisan politics and environmental expertise;
- Value conflicts in public administration and the role of deliberative expertise;
- Legal expertise and deliberation in environmental litigation processes;
- Perceptions and deliberation over scientific contestations within the public administration;
- Social movement activism and deliberative expertise;
- Emotion and cognition in deliberative expertise.
Authors are advised to submit a preliminary abstract, in order to receive guidance on the suitability of their paper in the Special Issue. Deadline for preliminary abstract is the 1st of March 2021.
Prof. Jan Olsson
Prof. Monika Berg
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- deliberative expertise
- policy and planning processes
- scientific conflicts
- value conflicts
- evidence-based policy
- partisan politics
- social movement
