Pluralism, democratic deliberation and environmental values

Graham Smith

pp. 63-77

in: Chris Pierson, Simon Tormey (eds), Politics at the edge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

Value conflict is at the heart of ecological politics and ethics. When reasoning about the environment, individuals and groups often find themselves pulled in contradictory directions, appealing to values that they find difficult to reconcile. Environmental politics has to confront conflict at many different levels — within and between individuals and between "factions' within the environmental movement itself.