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In 1979, James Lovelock authored "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth." In his hypothesis

               Lovelock proposes that societies ought to consider living organisms and inorganic material are


               part of a dynamical  system  that shapes the Earth's  biosphere and maintains  the Earth as a fit

               environment for life that humans are impacting. Others have popularized the Gaia Hypothesis,


               which was embraced to some extent by New Age environmentalists as part of the heightened

               awareness of environmental concerns of the 1990s.  As we find ourselves closing the second


               decade in the twenty-first century, we can describe our times being characterized by unprecedented

               sharing  of  information  via  wireless  networks  and  by  the  emergence  of  renewable  energy


               technologies  which  demarcates  a  threshold  from  one  world  view  to  another,  a  jump  from  an

               industrialized conception of nature as immutable and infinite to a Gaia inspired view of nature as


               alive, intelligent and, most of all, fragile in the premise of deliberative democracy which highlights

               the prominent role of citizens in obtaining meaningful input into decisions and laws made by

               elected representatives. As a process, deliberative democracy stimulates and supports levels of


               engagement that extend beyond “interest group bargaining or voting in elections” (Gutmann &

               Thompson, 2004, p. 4). Gutmann and Thompson (2004) noted that deliberative democracy exhibits


               four primary characteristics: “reason-giving, accessibility, decisions that are binding, and a process

               that is dynamic and sustained” (p. 6). These characteristics are acknowledged widely by a body of


               literature  that  contributes  to  the  normative  understanding  of  the  qualities  of  deliberative

               democracy.  This needs to be examined if we are to increase awareness and self-regulated control


               into how populations interact with and affect their environment.


                       Scholars  have  advanced  theories  of  deliberative  practice  from  a  historical  perspective

               toward  the  incorporation  of  participatory  and  group  process,  focusing  on  the  elements  of


               interaction  among  people  gathered  for  public  dialogue.  The  scholarly  research  created  a



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