Transformative Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability. Around the CoOPLAGE pathway
We, as humans, are currently facing urgent socio-ecological challenges (climate change, demographic increase, booming inequalities, etc.). These challenges are reinforced by systems of financial control at the international level, super-extractive strategies on natural resources, lack of effective democracy, surge of conflicts and wars, etc. This book is based on the assumption that these challenges cannot be faced without the enhanced participation of all stakeholders—from citizens to policy-makers—in the decisions that affect our social-ecological systems. This means that stakeholders must no longer simply be informed, but acquire the capacities to decide, act and adapt autonomously. In this sense, participation must be transformative. This book argues that this transformation needs to be accompanied by approaches, methods and concrete feedbacks. Therefore, this book aims to give an account of a diversity of practices and methods used to involve the various stakeholders, including the public, in transformative decision-making towards socio-ecological sustainability. It answers questions such as: How to engineer a participatory process? How can facilitators acquire the skills needed to facilitate such a process? How can role-playing games support decision and change? How to design territorial development plans with thousands of citizens? What digital platform can be designed to support participatory policy making? How can the impact of a participatory process be monitored and evaluated? What is the role of experts in these processes?
]]>« Face aux exigences toujours plus intenses des usagers qui ont tendance à comparer secteur privé et secteur public, les collectivités territoriales doivent se réinventer dans leurs organisations et l’accomplissement de leurs missions, tout en préservant leur vocation première d’intérêt général. Un formidable enjeu qui ouvre vers une nouvelle conception de l’accueil et de la Relation usagers, innovante, dynamique, et inclusive. »
Bertrand Pruvost, directeur commercial – Arpège
En se fondant sur la réciprocité, la coopération et la confiance, les communs
sont des alternatives vivantes et efficaces à l’étau des bureaucraties publiques et des technocraties néolibérales. Le commun, en tant que principe politique, ouvre des voies concrètes pour une société plus écologique à la hauteur des défis du XXIe siècle.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field.
Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science of collective intelligence applied to public challenges and will inspire public actors, academics, students, and activists across the world to apply collective intelligence in policymaking and administration to explore its potential, both to foster policy innovations and reinvent democracy.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, governance, public management, information technology and systems, innovation and democracy as well as more broadly for political science, psychology, management studies, public organizations and individual policy practitioners, public authorities, civil society activists and service providers.
Visit the handbook’s dedicated website, Smarter Together, for complementary material.
Cet ouvrage pluridisciplinaire vise non seulement à mieux définir les deux notions mais aussi à interroger leurs usages en sciences sociales ainsi que les apports de ce lexique à la compréhension de l’innovation publique. L’acceptation sociale informe sur ce qui est faisable, parce qu’elle est le produit des épreuves territoriales auxquelles l’innovation publique se trouve soumise.
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