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On-line Community Deliberative Engagement

This paper is a part of a research of on-line community deliberation with the aim to explore the potential of cyberspace in further development of community deliberative engagement. That is to be the introductory preliminary work for a planned research of exploring possibilities of community deliberative engagement for the debates and decisions dealing with the issues related to climate change. The project which at this stage involves Australia, US, Canada (where some of the field work is already being done), UK (where the preparations are on the way) and Croatia (where, so far, the general endorsement has been initially stated by the University of Dubrovnik as the partner in the projects) will also include research and in some cases experiments with on-line deliberation in the area of climate change. The general idea is to use comparative case studies and experimental design to determine what would be methods, processes and connections to policy processes, and what type of information are needed in the deliberation process. The underlying driver for this research is the belief of the social scientists involved that well designed citizen’s deliberation can shift the politics of climate change.

deliberative engagement; climate change; cyber space

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