Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 254-267Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9515-1
Keywords
Public participation; Decision-making; Evaluation
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- National Science Foundation [0114784]
- US Environmental Protection Agency [831219-01-3]
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0114784] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Practitioners and stakeholders involved in environmental and risk assessment and decision-making efforts have access to a growing list of policies and guidance for implementing good process. The advice is often general. There is little understanding of how situation specific features are relevant in new circumstances. In a series of ten case studies we investigated how people's (a) perceptions of the context, (b) preferences for outcomes, and (c) affiliations, experiences and motivations are related to their preferences for process features in a particular situation. The cases are in three policy areas: watershed management, forestry management, and clean-up and public health management of radioactively contaminated sites. We conclude this paper with a discussion of how the results can inform process design. Process design should be based on a diagnostic approach that specifically assesses relevant situational characteristics.
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