Public participation in environmental assessment and decision making /

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Imprint:Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 305 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201753
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Other authors / contributors:Dietz, Thomas.
Stern, Paul C., 1944-
National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change.
ISBN:0309123992
9780309123990
1281972932
9781281972934
9780309123983
0309123984
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-297).
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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.
Other form:Print version: Public participation in environmental assessment and decision making. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2008 9780309123983