Governing Biodiversity through Democratic Deliberation

Mikko Rask is adjunct Professor and senior researcher at University of Helsinki, Finland Richard Worthington is Professor at Pomona College, California, USA

• Part 1 Introduction 1. Understanding the Demand for Global Citizen Deliberation on Biodiversity Policy 2. WWViews on Biodiversity – New Methodological Developments and Ambitions Part 2 Global Biodiversity Policy Perspectives 3. The Variegated Landscape of Biodiversity Policy 4. Preserving Biodiversity in the European Union 5. Biodiversity and Sustainability in Nepal: A Role for Deliberation? Part 3 Constructing A Global Citizen's Voice 6. Constructing the ‘Citizen’ in Global Deliberations 7. The Role of Gender in Global Citizen Deliberation 8. A Mutual Learning Approach to WWViews 9. Bridging Global-Local Knowledge Gaps in Public Deliberation Part 4 The Art of Amplification 10. Media Strategy and Networks at the Margins of Biodiversity Governance 11. Amplifying Deliberative Results to Access Policy Networks: The Role of Informal Science Education Institutions Part 5 Reflective Institutional Design 12. ‘Mini-publics’, Competence and Reliable Decisions 13. Standardizing Heterogeneity: Negotiating Designs for Transnational Citizen Engagement 14. The Circulation of Ideas: A Discursive Deliberative Knowledge System for biodiversity policy Part 6 Conclusions 15. Global Citizen Deliberation – A Long Shot toward Sustainable Biodiversity Policy?