Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction: Advancing Public Deliberation on Climate Change and Other Wicked Problems 1
6. 1 Profiles of Four Citizen Deliberations 33
7. 2 The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy 67
8. 3 The Economic and Political Context of Climate Policy in Alberta 83
9. 4 Beyond the Usual Suspects: Representation in Deliberative Exercises 109
10. 5 From Facts to Frames: Dominant and Alternative Meanings of Climate Change 133
11. 6 Collaborating on Deliberative Democracy 147
12. 7 On the Ground: Practitioners Reflect on ABCD’s Citizen Deliberations 169
13. 8 Climate Change, Social Change, and Systems Change 197
14. Conclusion: The Potential of Deliberation to Tap the Power of Citizens to Address Climate Change and Other Issues of Sustainability 225
15. Contributors 239
16. Index 243