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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Environment.; Political science.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Sustainable development.; Pollution.; Pollution, general.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Environment, general.; Political Science.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

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...