Vill du vara med?: En studie av Piteåpanelen och dess inverkan på Piteå kommuns miljöpolitik
The representative democracy has become weakened during the last decades. At the same time the United Nations declared at the Rio de Janeiro meeting in 1992 that environmental problems can best be solved by involvement of all concerned citizens in decision-making. The main purpose of this study has...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-57114 2023-10-09T21:55:20+02:00 Vill du vara med?: En studie av Piteåpanelen och dess inverkan på Piteå kommuns miljöpolitik Vesterberg, Oskar 2012 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-57114 swe swe Statsvetenskapliga institutionen http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-57114 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Citizen panel environment Piteåpanelen Piteå municipality participation decision-making democracy climate and energy plan legitimacy participatory democracy direct democracy citizen dialogue citizen participation deliberative democracy Medborgarpanel miljö iteå kommun deltagande beslutsfattande demokrati klimat och energiplan legitimitet deltagardemokrati direktdemokrati medborgardialog medborgardeltagande deliberativ demokrati Political Science Statsvetenskap Student thesis info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis text 2012 ftumeauniv 2023-09-22T13:46:06Z The representative democracy has become weakened during the last decades. At the same time the United Nations declared at the Rio de Janeiro meeting in 1992 that environmental problems can best be solved by involvement of all concerned citizens in decision-making. The main purpose of this study has been to examine if citizens panels is a possible way to involve citizens in environmental decision-making and what the outcomes can be. Furthermore the study has investigated what the participation has contributed to environmental politics and how representative the results have been. This has been carried out by investigating the Piteåpanel in the municipality of Piteå by conducting interviews. The result of the study shows that the involvement of the citizens in the decision-making influenced the environmental politics of the municipality. The most striking result is that involving the citizens in the process of forming a climate and energy plan made the final plan more explicit and ambitious. However regarding the representativity the decisions can’t be considered fully representative from a political equality point of view. Despite this the decisions that have been made can be regarded as more legitimate because the citizens have been a part of the decision-making. The study argues in a careful way that increased participation in environmental decision-making in the form of citizens panels can be one of several approaches to both overcome the problems with the representative democracy and solve the environmental problems. Den representativa demokratin har under de senaste årtiondena blivit försvagad. Detta samtidigt som FN vid Rio de Janeiro mötet 1992 deklarerade att miljöproblemen bäst kan lösas med att involvera alla berörda medborgare i beslutsfattandet. Syftet med denna undersökning har i huvudsak varit att se närmare på om medborgarpaneler kan vara ett sätt att involvera medborgarna i miljöfrågor och vilken effekt det kan få. Vidare har studien också undersökt vilken inverkan deltagandet fått på ... Bachelor Thesis Piteå Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) |
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Citizen panel environment Piteåpanelen Piteå municipality participation decision-making democracy climate and energy plan legitimacy participatory democracy direct democracy citizen dialogue citizen participation deliberative democracy Medborgarpanel miljö iteå kommun deltagande beslutsfattande demokrati klimat och energiplan legitimitet deltagardemokrati direktdemokrati medborgardialog medborgardeltagande deliberativ demokrati Political Science Statsvetenskap |
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Citizen panel environment Piteåpanelen Piteå municipality participation decision-making democracy climate and energy plan legitimacy participatory democracy direct democracy citizen dialogue citizen participation deliberative democracy Medborgarpanel miljö iteå kommun deltagande beslutsfattande demokrati klimat och energiplan legitimitet deltagardemokrati direktdemokrati medborgardialog medborgardeltagande deliberativ demokrati Political Science Statsvetenskap Vesterberg, Oskar Vill du vara med?: En studie av Piteåpanelen och dess inverkan på Piteå kommuns miljöpolitik |
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Citizen panel environment Piteåpanelen Piteå municipality participation decision-making democracy climate and energy plan legitimacy participatory democracy direct democracy citizen dialogue citizen participation deliberative democracy Medborgarpanel miljö iteå kommun deltagande beslutsfattande demokrati klimat och energiplan legitimitet deltagardemokrati direktdemokrati medborgardialog medborgardeltagande deliberativ demokrati Political Science Statsvetenskap |
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The representative democracy has become weakened during the last decades. At the same time the United Nations declared at the Rio de Janeiro meeting in 1992 that environmental problems can best be solved by involvement of all concerned citizens in decision-making. The main purpose of this study has been to examine if citizens panels is a possible way to involve citizens in environmental decision-making and what the outcomes can be. Furthermore the study has investigated what the participation has contributed to environmental politics and how representative the results have been. This has been carried out by investigating the Piteåpanel in the municipality of Piteå by conducting interviews. The result of the study shows that the involvement of the citizens in the decision-making influenced the environmental politics of the municipality. The most striking result is that involving the citizens in the process of forming a climate and energy plan made the final plan more explicit and ambitious. However regarding the representativity the decisions can’t be considered fully representative from a political equality point of view. Despite this the decisions that have been made can be regarded as more legitimate because the citizens have been a part of the decision-making. The study argues in a careful way that increased participation in environmental decision-making in the form of citizens panels can be one of several approaches to both overcome the problems with the representative democracy and solve the environmental problems. Den representativa demokratin har under de senaste årtiondena blivit försvagad. Detta samtidigt som FN vid Rio de Janeiro mötet 1992 deklarerade att miljöproblemen bäst kan lösas med att involvera alla berörda medborgare i beslutsfattandet. Syftet med denna undersökning har i huvudsak varit att se närmare på om medborgarpaneler kan vara ett sätt att involvera medborgarna i miljöfrågor och vilken effekt det kan få. Vidare har studien också undersökt vilken inverkan deltagandet fått på ... |
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Vill du vara med?: En studie av Piteåpanelen och dess inverkan på Piteå kommuns miljöpolitik |
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