Beyond Consensus: How Everyday Citizens Advocate for Local Environmental Issues - Hardcover

$180.00

Beyond Consensus: How Everyday Citizens Advocate for Local Environmental Issues - Hardcover

Name: Beyond Consensus: How Everyday Citizens Advocate for Local Environmental Issues - Hardcover
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SKU: 9781666980998
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by Kelly Scarff

$180.00

Book Overview

By better understanding the "genre" of environmental public hearings, one can challenge ideas of effectiveness and consensus so that citizens can learn to advocate more effectively for their concerns about environmental issues.

This book addresses how public hearing genre conventions are established and how those conventions inform and often govern tensions that arise in public discourse about a contested environmental project. The two questions driving the author's inquiry are: one, how do citizens and institutions interpret, prepare for, respond to, and engage with the public hearing genre? And two, what role and effect do public hearings have on both the community and the contested project's overall process? The case study delves into public comments from two Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) 401 Water Quality Certification public hearings that were held in August 2017 and hosted by Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ). The author argues that there are ways we might reimagine ideas of effectiveness, consensus, and the public hearing genre, specifically in the case of the 401 Public Hearings and more generally in other public hearings where public discourses center on a contested environmental project like the MVP.

ISBN	9781666980998
Author	Kelly Scarff
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Genre	News & politics and Education
Format	Hardcover
Published	January 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	152
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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