| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction --The promise and perils of participation -- The effects of public participation -- Public participation practice: management practices -- Practice: organizing participation -- Practice: integrating science -- Context: the issue -- Context: the people -- Overall conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix: biographical sketches of panel members and staff |
| Summary |
Advocates of public participation believe it improves environmental assessment and decision making; detractors criticize it as ineffective and inefficient. The term public participation, as used in this book, includes organized processes adopted by elected officials, government agencies, or other public- or private-sector organizations to engage the public in environmental assessment, planning, decision making, management, monitoring, and evaluation. These processes supplement traditional forms of public participation (voting, forming interest groups, demonstrating, lobbying) by directly involving the public in executive functions that, when they are conducted in government, are traditionally delegated to administrative agencies. The goal of participation is to improve the quality, legitimacy, and capacity of environmental assessments and decisions.. This book ... assesses whether, and under what conditions, public participation achieves the outcomes desired. Claims from all sides are considered and evaluated as a central point of the study, in order to provide an overall assessment of the merits and failings of participation. It also offers guidance to practitioners and identifies directions for further research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-297) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental impact analysis -- Citizen participation -- Evaluation
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Environmental policy -- Decision making -- Citizen participation -- Evaluation
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Environmental policy -- United States -- Decision making
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Administrative agencies -- United States -- Decision making
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Administrative procedure -- United States -- Citizen participation
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Environmental protection -- United States -- Citizen participation
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Administrative agencies -- Decision making
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Administrative procedure -- Citizen participation
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Environmental policy -- Decision making
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Environmental protection -- Citizen participation
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dietz, Thomas.
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Stern, Paul C., 1944-
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National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change.
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| ISBN |
0309123992 |
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9780309123990 |
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1281972932 |
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9781281972934 |
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