Sustentagarritasuna, sozio ingurumen gatazkak eta demokrazia parte hartzailea
- Iñaki Bárcena Hinojal
- Jone Martínez- Palacios
- Epifanio Zurimendi
- Izaro Gorostidi Bidaurrazaga
- Josu Xabier Larrinaga Arza
- Antxon Gallego
- Arkaitz San Jose
- Asier Blas Mendoza
- Mario Zubiaga Garate
- Imanol Telleria Herrera
ISSN: 1887-9810
Année de publication: 2009
Número: 3
Pages: 75-85
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista Forum de Sostenibilidad = Forum Iraunkortasun aldizkaria = Sustainability Forum journal
Résumé
Social environmental conflicts may become political opportunity structures for the development of centrifugal forces which, in turn, tend to drive actual democracies to a more participatory model. The way in which those conflicts are solved constitutes, therefore, a reliable indicator for the quality of democracy. Local Agenda 21 can be regarded, to the extent in which they are participatory processes on environmental issues, as opportunities for a participatory management of social environmental conflicts. This paper focuses on this topic by comparing, first, the number of local Agendas 21 in the Basque Country and that of social environmental conflicts. Subsequently, twelve cases are analysed into detail. Both tasks serve to identify certain general features that characterise the participatory management of social environmental conflicts in the Basque Country.