1. SCIENCE, DEMOCRACY, AND THE POLITICS OF URBAN ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT: ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION AS GREEN URBANIZING POLICY.
- Author
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Alario, Margarita
- Abstract
The article reports that the implementation of ecosystem restoration policy is being undertaken throughout the United States. The success of this policy is often determined by the acceptability of restoration and its physical impacts on the landscape. Notwithstanding the formal scientific parameters, it has been in the political arena where the ranges of desirable ecosystem projects have been both contested and supported. Workable scientific solutions to empirical questions of urban ecosystem restoration have depended in no small measure on the democratic deliberation of reaching agreeable policy goals. To the extent that science-based environmental policy making have increasingly become woven into the fabric of democratic societies, an analytic deliberative strategy of decision making looms to be a promising component to urban ecological restoration projects. Tracking the ups and downs of these projects reveal the evolving support to the goals of urban ecosystem restoration and conservation, as much as some of the adverse impact that the initial decoupling of ecological sciences from democratic processes had in the overall implementation of this policy.
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- 2000