June 16th, 2014 | RESEARCH
Public participation in decision-making has in the last decades become a common refrain in political and scientific discourse, yet it does not often truly come to fruition. The present study focuses on the underlying issue, that of the construction of the difference between scientific and public knowledge and its consequences. Through discourse analysis of scientific texts on sustainable development three distinct groups of Slovenian social scientists were discerned that differed in their views on the relationship between scientific and public knowledge and consequently the role and nature of public participation in decision-making processes. With a rise in participatory practices the preponderance of the deficit model found in this study remains problematic.
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Pika Zaloznik, Author, University of LjubljanaCitation
Identifier Type: ISSN
Identifier: 1824-2049
Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 13
Number: 3
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Audience: General Public | Scientists
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | History | policy | law
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Comics | Books | Newspapers | Informal | Formal Connections | Media and Technology