Author: Thomas C. Beierle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1136528091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In spite of the expanding role of public participation in environmental decisionmaking, there has been little systematic examination of whether it has, to date, contributed toward better environmental management. Neither have there been extensive empirical studies to examine how participation processes can be made more effective. Democracy in Practice brings together, for the first time, the collected experience of 30 years of public involvement in environmental decisionmaking. Using data from 239 cases, the authors evaluate the success of public participation and the contextual and procedural factors that lead to it. Thomas Beierle and Jerry Cayford demonstrate that public participation has not only improved environmental policy, but it has also played an important educational role and has helped resolve the conflict and mistrust that often plague environmental issues. Among the authors' findings are that intensive 'problem-solving' processes are most effective for achieving a broad set of social goals, and participant motivation and agency responsiveness are key factors for success. Democracy in Practice will be useful for a broad range of interests. For researchers, it assembles the most comprehensive data set on the practice of public participation, and presents a systematic typology and evaluation framework. For policymakers, political leaders, and citizens, it provides concrete advice about what to expect from public participation, and how it can be made more effective. Democracy in Practice concludes with a systematic guide for use by government agencies in their efforts to design successful public participation efforts.
Author: Stephen Stec
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9789638454201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A supplement to the original manual, this volume expands the analysis of public participation to include Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Country reports provide an overview of the legislation and public participation practices in each of the three Baltic countries, including expanded discussion of administrative law and procedure.
Author: Magdolna Tóth Nagy
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789630441629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Bowman
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789630441629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen P. Depoe
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2004-02-03
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780791460238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.
Author: James L. Creighton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2005-03-21
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1118437047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Internationally renowned facilitator and public participation consultant James L. Creighton offers a practical guide to designing and facilitating public participation of the public in environmental and public policy decision making. Written for government officials, public and community leaders, and professional facilitators, The Public Participation Handbook is a toolkit for designing a participation process, selecting techniques to encourage participation, facilitating successful public meetings, working with the media, and evaluating the program. The book is also filled with practical advice, checklists, worksheets, and illustrative examples.
Author: Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9789638454430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frans H. J. M. Coenen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-12-12
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 140209325X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are functional, that is to say they see public participation as a means to an end. Sound solutions to environmental problems require participation beyond experts and political elites. Neglecting information from the public leads to legitimacy questions and potential conflicts. There is a discourse in the literature and in policy practice as to whether decision-making improves in quality as additional relevant information by the public is considered. The promise that public participation holds has to be weighed against the limitations of public participation in terms of costs and interest conflicts. The question that Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions seeks to answer for academics, planners and civil servants in all environmental relevant policy fields is: What restricts and what enables information to hold the ‘promise’ that public participation lead to better environmental decision-making and better outcomes?