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Democracy and Environmental Decision-Making

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Klaus Peter Rippe
Peter Schaber
Abstract

It has been argued that environmental decision-making can be improved be introducing citizen panels. The authors argue that citizen panels and other models of citizen participation should only be used as a consulting forum in exceptional cases at the local level, not as a real decision-making procedure. But many problems in the field of environmental policy need nonlocal, at least regional or national, regulation due to the fact that they are of national impor-tance. The authors argue that there are good reasons not to institutionalise national citizen panels. They advocate the view that more reasonable and more competent solutions can be found by introducing forms of direct democracy.

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Article provided by White Horse Press in its journal Environmental Values.

Volume (Year): 8 (1999)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 75-88
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Keywords: participation; citizen panels; consensus conferences; democracy;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
Q26 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources
Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy

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  1. Carolyn Hendriks, 2005. "Participatory storylines and their influence on deliberative forums," Policy Sciences, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 1-20, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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