TY - CHAP

T1 - Participation: Empowerment for Sustainable Development

AU - Heinrichs, Harald

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The current discussion about participation and sustainability shows the relevance of participative elements in modern societies for coping with social, ecological and technological complexity. Especially in the 1990s participative processes for cooperative planning and decision-making procedures were developed and tested. Faced with the challenges confronting society as it moves towards a more sustainable development, both the opportunities and the limits of a culture of participation and sustainability will become more and more noticeable.

AB - The current discussion about participation and sustainability shows the relevance of participative elements in modern societies for coping with social, ecological and technological complexity. Especially in the 1990s participative processes for cooperative planning and decision-making procedures were developed and tested. Faced with the challenges confronting society as it moves towards a more sustainable development, both the opportunities and the limits of a culture of participation and sustainability will become more and more noticeable.

KW - Politics

KW - Participation

KW - Cultural Evolution

KW - Cooperation

KW - Participation methods

KW - Sustainability communication

KW - Sustainability Science

U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-1697-1_16

DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-1697-1_16

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-94-007-1696-4

SP - 187

EP - 198

BT - Sustainability Communication

A2 - Godemann, Jasmin

A2 - Michelsen, Gerd

PB - Springer

CY - Dordrecht

ER -