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I present the science studies perspective used in this book and explain why environmental participation is addressed as a distinct type of public engagement. Origin stories of environmental participation are outlined and a practice-based distinction between environmental participation in science, decision making and expertise is introduced. This distinction is explained and applied in a presentation of the key concepts used to discuss participatory practices in this book. The characteristics of participating publics are considered and finally, I outline the content of the subsequent four chapters.
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Landström, C. (2020). Introduction: Environmental Participation. In: Environmental Participation. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33043-9_1
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