We want to open our Blog to invited guest bloggers, and we’re pleased to post below a first contribution from Alejandro Litovsky, who heads the Pathways to Scale programme with our friends at Volans.
You can also find Alejandro’s post on the…
It is clear that established systems of citizen participation and democracy will struggle to cope with the multiple challenges and trade-offs of climate change management; but how they might evolve or what might emerge to replace them is unclear.
Less democracy, more…
The Scottish Children’s Parliament provides opportunities for children aged from 9 to 14 years old to engage in local, national and international democratic processes.
The Parliament has been working with WWF Scotland in a Climate Change Project which gave children an opportunity…
John Elkington and John Lotherington’s reflections on discussions on ‘Democracy and Sustainability’ at the Dana Centre in March 2008. They ask: is democracy necessary for sustainable development, or does it get in the way?
In this discussion paper for The Environment Foundation’s March 2008 events and discussions on democracy and sustainability, Ian Christie critically examines four propositions: democracy is crucial for humane and just sustainable development; democracy poses huge problems for sustainable development;…