Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions The Promise and Limits of Participatory Processes for the Quality of Environmentally Related Decision-making /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coenen, Frans H. J. M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Regional planning.; Environmental law.; Sustainable development.; Political science.; Sociology.; Environment.; Environment, general.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Political Science.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9325-8

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 participat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Citizens Voices in Environmental Policy: The Contribution of Integrated Assessment Focus Groups to Accountable Decision-making
• 3. The Use of Focus Groups in Assessing Ethnic and Racial Groups Concerns about Nuclear Waste Cleanup
• 4. Planning Cells and Citizen Juries in Environmental Policy: Deliberation and Its Limits
• 5. The Power Visioning: The Contribution of Future Search Conferences to Decision-making in Local Agenda 21 Processes
• 6. Participatory Decision-making for Sustainable Consumption
• 7. Hazardous Waste Anyone? A Comparison of Participatory and Non-participatory Approaches to Hazardous Waste Siting
• 8. Fora, Networks and Public Examinations: Building a Sustainable Development for South East England
• 9. Concepts of Participatory Decision-making in Dutch Infrastructure Planning
• 10. Local Agenda 21: Meaningful and Effective Participation?- 11. Conclusions.