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Context dependency and stakeholder involvement in EIA: the decisive role of practitioners

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  • Malgorzata Blicharska
  • Karolina Isaksson
  • Tim Richardson
  • Chia-Jung Wu

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The outcomes of frameworks and practices for stakeholder involvement in environmental impact assessment (EIA) for road planning, under the umbrella of a common EU legal framework, are investigated here in specific national contexts. Data for the two empirical cases examined - Poland and Sweden - are related to the recent ongoing discussion on context dependency for Environmental Assessments (EA). The analysis, informed by practitioner interviews and documentary review, comprises a historical review of the evolution of EIA and stakeholder involvement, and examines more closely the legal frameworks, formal and informal arenas for stakeholder involvement, and norms of stakeholder involvement held by professionals involved in the planning process in the two countries. The results challenge existing assumptions about the relative depth of institutionalisation of stakeholder involvement and environmental concern in a Scandinavian and Central-Eastern European context, and highlight the decisive role of practitioners in the application of EA frameworks in planning practice.

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  • Malgorzata Blicharska & Karolina Isaksson & Tim Richardson & Chia-Jung Wu, 2011. "Context dependency and stakeholder involvement in EIA: the decisive role of practitioners," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(3), pages 337-354.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:54:y:2011:i:3:p:337-354
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2010.506077
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    1. Julio A. Soria-Lara & Luca Bertolini & Marco Te Brömmelstroet, 2017. "Towards a more effective EIA in transport planning: a literature review to derive interventions and mechanisms to improve knowledge integration," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(5), pages 755-772, May.
    2. Blicharska, Malgorzata & Angelstam, Per & Elbakidze, Marine & Axelsson, Robert & Skorupski, Maciej & Węgiel, Andrzej, 2012. "The Polish Promotional Forest Complexes: objectives, implementation and outcomes towards sustainable forest management?," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 28-39.
    3. Tikkanen, Jukka, 2018. "Participatory turn - and down-turn - in Finland's regional forest programme process," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 87-97.
    4. Patrick McAllister & Emma Street & Peter Wyatt, 2016. "Governing calculative practices: An investigation of development viability modelling in the English planning system," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(11), pages 2363-2379, August.

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