Commons, Sustainability, Democratization: Action Research and the Basic Renewal of Society [Hardcover]

This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend the present dichotomy between these two dimensions.

Editors Introduction: Why Sustainability and Democratisation?  Hans Peter Hansen, Birger Steen Nielsen, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah and Ewa Gunnarsson  Part One: Action Research and Sustainability: Practical-Conceptual Drafts  Introduction to Part One  Hans Peter Hansen, Birger Steen Nielsen, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah and Ewa Gunnarsson  1. Re-Inventing the Commons: How Action Research Can Support the Renewal of Sustainable Communities  Laura Tolnov Clausen  2. Action Research for Emancipation: Social-Ecological Relations, Commoning and Basic Conceptual Questions  Cristi?n Alarc?n  3. Critical Utopian Action Research: The Potentials of Action Research in Democratisation of Society  Birger Steen Nielsen and Kurt Aagaard Nielsen  Part Two: Citizens Initiatives, Hopes and Difficulties: Experiences with Action Research in Scandinavia, London, Latin-America and Africa  Introduction to Part Two  Hans Peter Hansen, Birger Steen Nielsen, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah and Ewa Gunnarsson  4. Citizens, Values and Experts: Stakeholders and the Inveigling Factor of Participatory Democracy  Hans Peter Hansen, Erica von Essen and Nadarajah Sriskandarajah  5. Bridging Divides Through Spaces of Change: Action Research for Cultivating the Commons in Human-Inhabited Protected Areas in Nicaraguló: