Public Brainpower Civil Society and Natural Resource Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Overland, Indra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political science.; Ethnology.; Natural resources.; Environmental policy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Political Science.; Social Anthropology.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Environmental Politics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

This book examines how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect natural resource governance. Drawing on the theories of Robert Dahl, Jurgen Habermas and Robert Putnam, the book introduces the concept of 'public brainpower', proposing that good institutions require: fertile...