Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Advancing Public Deliberation on Climate Change and Other Wicked Problems

Lorelei L. Hanson and David Kahane

1. Profiles of Four Citizen Deliberations

Lorelei L. Hanson

2. The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy

David Kahane and Gwendolyn Blue

3. The Economic and Political Context of Climate Policy in Alberta

Geoff Salomons and John R. Parkins

4. Beyond the Usual Suspects: Representation in Deliberative Exercises

Shelley Boulianne

5. From Facts to Frames: Dominant and Alternative Meanings of Climate Change

Gwendolyn Blue

6. Collaborating on Deliberative Democracy

David Kahane and Lorelei L. Hanson

7. On the Ground: Practitioners Reflect on ABCD’s Citizen Deliberations

Mary Pat MacKinnon, Jacquie Dale, and Susanna Haas Lyons

8. Climate Change, Social Change, and Systems Change

David Kahane

Conclusion: The Potential of Deliberation to Tap the Power of Citizens to Address Climate Change and Other Issues of Sustainability

Tom Prugh and Matt Leighninger

List of Contributors

Index