The climate crisis puts real pressure on legal guarantees of public participation in decision making. This pressure comes from a number of directions, but we are particularly concerned with the technocratic erosion of routines of participation, in a turn to expertise rather than democracy for legitimate decision making. At the same time, populists resist the constraints imposed on their power by legal rights of participation. We argue, however, that the climate crisis, while putting pressure on participation, also reinforces its necessity, and the limitations of technocratic decision making. Politics is unavoidable, even and especially in a crisis. Law, or its silence, contributes to the context, the place, and the meaning of participation, and we study its strangely underexplored role in shaping participation on the ground.

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参与气候危机时期

气候危机给公众参与决策的法律保障带来了真正的压力。这种压力来自多个方向，但我们特别关注技术官僚对参与惯例的侵蚀，转向专业知识而不是民主来进行合法决策。与此同时，民粹主义者抵制合法参与权对其权力的约束。然而，我们认为，气候危机在对参与施加压力的同时，也加强了其必要性以及技术官僚决策的局限性。政治是不可避免的，尤其是在危机中。法律，或它的沉默，对参与的背景、地点和意义有所贡献，我们研究了它在塑造实地参与方面奇怪的未被充分探索的作用。