Public participation in environmental assessment and decision making /

Public participation in environmental assessment and decision making /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 305 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Environmental impact analysis -- Citizen participation -- Evaluation. Environmental policy -- Decision making -- Citizen participation -- Evaluation. Environmental policy -- United States -- Decision making. Administrative agencies -- United States -- Decision making. Administrative procedure -- United States -- Citizen participation. Environmental protection -- United States -- Citizen participation. Administrative agencies -- Decision making. Administrative procedure -- Citizen participation. Environmental policy -- Decision making. Environmental protection -- Citizen participation. United States. Electronic books.
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). Print version record.
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

Table of 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.