By Frans Coenen (auth.), Frans H. J. M. Coenen (eds.)
Public Participation and higher Environmental Decisions is set a particular ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. a few of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental coverage records are sensible, that's to claim they see public participation as a method to an finish. Sound options to environmental difficulties require participation past specialists and political elites. Neglecting details from the general public results in legitimacy questions and capability conflicts.
There is a discourse within the literature and in coverage perform as to if decision-making improves in caliber as extra correct info through the general public is taken into account. The promise that public participation holds needs to be weighed opposed to the restrictions of public participation by way of expenditures and curiosity conflicts. The query that Public Participation and higher Environmental Decisions seeks to respond to for lecturers, planners and civil servants in all environmental suitable coverage fields is: What restricts and what allows info to carry the ‘promise’ that public participation result in larger environmental decision-making and higher outcomes?
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There are other problems in these studies. For instance, those in the Flynn study were non-white English speakers indicating that the minorities interviewed were not representative of many non-whites in the United States. Focus group data eliminates the problem of imposing a specific definition of risk perception or environmental concern onto the subjects, as survey research tends to do. The focus group format allows respondents to develop and explain their views about risk and the environment.
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Integrated assessments strive to provide more useful information for decision-makers than can be achieved with traditional disciplinary research. They aim to integrate pictures of complex decision situations, rather than provide highly detailed but not integrated pieces of knowledge (Rotmans & Asselt, 1996). Integrated assessment1 has, in the past, been developed for issues such as acid rain (Alcamo, Shaw, & Hordijk, 1990) and global climate change (Weyant, Davidson, Dowlatabadi, Edmonds, & Grubb, 1996).
