Beschreibung
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction.- 1.1 Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making.- 1.2 The Quality of Decisions.- The Instrument Functions of Public Participation.- 1.4 Institutional Arrangements and Participation Rules.- 1.4.1 Participation Rules.- 1.4.2 Limitations in Institutional Arrangements and Effective Decision-making.- 1.5 Participation Methods: Purpose and Organisational Set-up.- 1.6 The Contours of the Volume.- References.- 2. Citizens¿ Voices in Environmental Policy: The Contribution of Integrated Assessment Focus Groups to Accountable Decision-making.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The Need for Methods to Enhance Administrative and Representative Democracy Decision-making.- 2.3 The Integrated Assessment (IA) Focus Group Method.- 2.3.1 Origin, Principles and Basic Assumptions.- 2.3.2 Developing and Applying the Method in the ULYSSES Project.- 2.3.3 Results of the ULYSSES Project.- 2.4 How Can the IA Focus Group Method be Further Developed?- 2.4.1 Use in Other Policy Areas, and in Improving Environmental Management.- 2.4.2 Better use of Ordinary Knowledge in Decision-making.- 2.4.3 Enhancing the Work of Parliaments.- References.- 3. The Use of Focus Groups in Assessing Ethnic and Racial Groups Concerns about Nuclear Waste Cleanup.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Local Residents and Environmental Risk Perceptions.- 3.3 Minority Risk Perception: Theory and General Findings.- 3.4 The Consortium for Environmental Risk Evaluation (CERE) Study.- 3.4.1 Methodology.- 3.4.2 Analysing Ethic and Racial Risk Concerns at the DOE Sites.- 3.4.2.1 a¿¿I Do Not Know¿: Uncertainty about Environmental Risk.- 3.4.2.2 a¿¿I Am Not Worried¿: Lack of Concern about Environmental Risk.- 3.4.2.3 a¿¿I Am Somewhat Worried¿: Limited Concern about Environmental Risk.- 3.4.2.4 a¿¿I Am Worried¿: General Concern about Environmental Risk.- 3.4.2.5 a¿¿I Am Worried for My Family¿: Personal Concern about Environmental Risk.- 3.4.2.6 a¿¿I Was So Worried, I Moved¿: Taking Action because of Environmental Risk.- 3.5 Conclusion: Ethnicity and the Perception of Environmental Threat.- 3.5.1 Ethnicity and Risk Perception.- 3.5.2 Risk, Ethnicity and Policy.- References.- 4. Planning Cells and Citizen Juries in Environmental Policy: Deliberation and Its Limits.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Citizen Juries: Origins and Background.- 4.3. Argument.- 4.4. The Track-record of Citizen Juries in Environmental Policy - Some Comparative Evidence.- 4.5 Case Study: The Galway a¿¿Pilot¿ Citizen Jury on Waste Policy.- 4.6 Discussion: Policy Learning through Deliberation?- 4.7 Conclusion.- References.- 5. The Power Visioning: The Contribution of Future Search Conferences to Decision-making in Local Agenda 21 Processes.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The Future Search Conference Method.- 5.2.1 A New Generation of Systemic Participation Methods on the Rise.- 5.2.2 Origin, Principles and Basic Assumptions.- 5.2.3 Expected Results.- 5.3 Future Search as a Tool for Stakeholder Involvement for Local Agenda 21.- 5.4 The Normative Ideal of a¿¿Collaborative Planning¿ as Measuring Stick for the Evaluation.- 5.4.1 The Research Question and Methodology.- 5.4.2 Collaborative Planning as Evaluation Framework.- 5.5 The Future Search Conference Method in Practice.- 5.5.1 Introducing the Case Study Areas.- 5.5.2 Process Criteria.- 5.5.2.1 Fairness.- 5.5.2.2 Competence.- 5.5.3 Capacity Building Criteria.- 5.5.3.1 New Contacts and Partnerships.- 5.5.3.2 Learning.- 5.5.3.3 Building Trust, Community Spirit and Reviving Local Democracy.- 5.5.4 Outcome.- 5.5.4.1 A Consensus Followed by Action.- 5.6 The Future Search Conference in the Context of Power Relations.- 5.6.1 Explaining the Failure to Deliver.- 5.6.2 Implications for the Use of Future Search Conferences.- Acknowledgements.- References.- 6. Participatory Decision-making for Sustainable Consumption.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Motives for Participatory Decision-making in Sustainable Consumption Policies.- 6.3 Limitations of Participatory Decision-making in Sustainab ...
