Winning Back the Words: Confronting experts in an Environmental Public Hearing

Richardson, Mary / Joan Sherman / Michael Gismondi

ISBN 10: 0920059171 / ISBN 13: 9780920059173

Published by Garamond Press, Toronto / Vancouver, 1993

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191 pp, index, b/w plates. Wraps have light edge and corner wear. Interior unmarked, spine straight and uncreased.

Seller Inventory # 011675

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Winning Back the Words: Confronting experts in an Environmental Public Hearing
• Publisher: Garamond Press, Toronto / Vancouver
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0920059171
• ISBN 13: 9780920059173
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural Sciences

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Synopsis

Winning Back the Words chronicles the politics of the environmental public hearings on the Alberta-Pacific bleached kraft pulp mill in northern Alberta, and illustrates how the public challenged the authority of experts. Drawing from their own experiences in the hearings, the authors recreate the power struggles among participants over the words and discourses used to debate the impact of the mill on the environment. Controversies about science and values, sustainable development, and local knowledge suggest promising new directions in environmental review.

About the Author

Michael Gismondi teaches at Athabasca University in northern Alberta, where he is a third-term Town Councillor and active in community and sustainability issues. In 2005, he helped collectively edit Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change (Fernwood Press).