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Barriers to Deliberative Participation in EIA: Learning from Waste Policies, Plans and Projects

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  • Judith Petts

    (Centre for Environmental Research and Training, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK)

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Despite increased legislative, political and social support for extended public engagement in environmental assessment, questions remain over the best means to integrate more analytic-deliberative processes within extended and fragmented decision-making frameworks. Using evidence from waste management decision-making in Britain this paper discusses institutional, cultural and technical barriers to effective integration of analysis and deliberation. The barriers are seen to limit effective participationintradecisions but particularlyinter-decisions and hence to limit public impact on assessments and achievement of consensus on the optimum integrated waste management strategies. Institutional, technical and cultural barriers to effective process are discussed that compound the problems of enhancing public participation and promote maintenance of the status quo. Thus, environmental assessment still largely proceedsin advanceof discussion with the public rather thanthroughdiscussion with them.

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  • Judith Petts, 2003. "Barriers to Deliberative Participation in EIA: Learning from Waste Policies, Plans and Projects," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(03), pages 269-293.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:05:y:2003:i:03:n:s1464333203001358
    DOI: 10.1142/S1464333203001358
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