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dc.contributor.authorO'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:47:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:47:51Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-01-25T02:19:40Z
dc.identifier.issn01959255
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.eiar.2009.05.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/35624
dc.description.abstractIn recent years the need to enhance public participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and the efficacy of alternative mechanisms in achieving this goal, have been central themes in the EIA literature. The benefits of public participation are often taken for granted, and partly for this reason the underlying rationale for greater public participation is sometimes poorly articulated, making it more difficult to determine how to pursue it effectively. The reasons for seeking public participation are also highly diverse and not always mutually consistent. There has been limited analysis of the implications of different forms and degrees of public participation for public decision making based on EIA, and little discussion of how experience with public participation in EIA relates to debates about participation in policy making generally. This paper distinguishes various purposes for public participation in EIA, and discusses their implications for decision making. It then draws on some general models of public participation in policy making to consider how approaches to participation in EIA can be interpreted and valued, and asks what EIA experience reveals about the utility of these models. It argues that the models pay insufficient attention to the interaction that can occur between different forms of public participation; and to the fact that public participation raises issues regarding control over decision making that are not subject to resolution, but must be managed through ongoing processes of negotiation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom19
dc.relation.ispartofpageto27
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEnvironmental Impact Assessment Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental management not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBuilt environment and design
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode410499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode33
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode44
dc.titlePublic participation and environmental impact assessment: Purposes, implications, and lessons for public policy making
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorO'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran S.


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