Squintani, Lorenzo; Darpo, Jan; Lavrysen, Luc; Stoll, Peter-Tobias --- "Managing Facts and Feelings in Environmental Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) [2019] ELECD 1507

Editor(s): Squintani, Lorenzo; Darpö, Jan; Lavrysen, Luc; Stoll, Peter-Tobias

Title: Managing Facts and Feelings in Environmental Governance

Series: New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series

Topics: Environmental Governance and Regulation

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 26 July 2019

Number of pages: c 256

Abstract/Description:

This timely book brings to the foreground the considerable tensions between the need to engage the public in the importance of environmental governance and the need of professional expertise to address the issues which arise. In doing so, it highlights that not only can public opinion deviate from scientific knowledge, but scientific knowledge itself can be lacunose or contradicting. Drawing together insights from some of the leading scholars, this engaging work will provide guidance to decision makers, including judges, on how to govern public participation procedures and professional expertise and the role that the precautionary principle can play in this regard.