However, a restriction is also placed on the privilege, or “specific recognition”, of environmentalobjectives. According to the norms of democracy, environmental objectives cannot automaticallyoverride other societal objectives, but must be subject a democratic decision-making process. Hence,Lafferty concludes that “the ultimate trade-off for EPI is between existing democratic norms andprocedures on the one hand, and the goals and operational necessities of sustainable development onthe other” (p. 15). The democratic aspects of EPI are not elucidated by many other authors, except forlater publications by Lenschow (2002b,d).
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