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Participatory Modelling and the Local Governance of the Politics of UK Air Pollution: A Three-City Case Study

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  • Steve Yearley
  • Steve Cinderbyy
  • John Forrester
  • Peter Bailey
  • Paul Rosen

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In the last decade, many arguments have emerged for encouraging public participation in environmental policy making and management. While some have argued that, in democratic societies, people simply have a right to a participatory role, others base arguments for public participation on the idea that lay people may have access to knowledge which is unknown to officially sanctioned experts. Local people may count as experts about aspects of their neighbourhood or they may have insights into the behaviour of plant operators that is thought to give rise to pollution. This paper reports on a novel empirical approach to analysing and capturing such 'lay' understandings. This technique ('participatory modelling'), developed in ESRC-funded work in the UK, uses community mapping exercises in urban centres to produce spatial representations of local knowledges about air pollution and related problems of noise and odour. In the paper the technique is outlined, presenting data from the three-city case study. The paper concludes by assessing the ways in which participatory modelling can contribute to the local governance of air quality.

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  • Steve Yearley & Steve Cinderbyy & John Forrester & Peter Bailey & Paul Rosen, 2003. "Participatory Modelling and the Local Governance of the Politics of UK Air Pollution: A Three-City Case Study," Environmental Values, White Horse Press, vol. 12(2), pages 247-262, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:env:journl:ev12:ev1212
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    Keywords

    Participation; modelling; air-quality; public understanding of science; GIS;
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    JEL classification:

    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects

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