Evaluating public participation in Chinese EIA. An integrated Public Participation Index and its application to the case of the New Beijing Airport

Brombal, Daniele; Moriggi, Angela; Marcomini, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.07.001

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“…Environmental management that previously depends on governments' and experts' decision is now shifting toward a more democratic system which brings back the public into core decision making. (Salomons & Hoberg, 2014;Brombal, et al, 2017). As observed by Purnama (2003), this changes has also taken its toll in Indonesia.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…Based on those rationales we can argue that public participation is undoubtedly crucial. However, public participation is still applied to various degrees of involvement according to objectives pursued (Brombal et al, 2017). Rowe & Frewer (2000) noted that the lowest level of involvement is characterized by a top-down, one-way flow of information while the highest is characterized by dialogue and two-way information exchange.…”

Section: Public Participation In Environmental Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Informational Asymmetry in Public Participation on Environmental Monitoring in Indonesian Regulation: A Preliminary Discourse

Daniel¹,

Habsari²

2019

CSID-JID

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Public participation has been viewed as a crucial component in environmental management. Public participation enables the community to inform the project proponents and government agencies on local knowledge and aspiration to be considered in the decision-making process. Based on our literature review we found that effective participation in monitoring might be hampered by informational asymmetry and the opportunistic nature of firms. In the case of Indonesia, little has been discussed on the possible informational asymmetry on the public participation process in environmental management. This paper aims to give a normative analysis of the current regulation of public participation in Indonesia to identify possible informational asymmetry that might give a barrier to effective monitoring. Our discussion found that there are still gaps in access to relevant information in the current mechanism of public participation. This is due to a prematurely informational disclosure and the lack of projects and decisions follow-up towards the community by both firms and government agencies. This set a barrier for the community to obtain credence information which comprised of the firms' environmental requirements and obligations and the highly technical aspects of environmental monitoring. We suggest a proper way to address this obstacle by reforming public participation regulation.

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Section: Public Participation In Environmental Managementmentioning

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Informational Asymmetry in Public Participation on Environmental Monitoring in Indonesian Regulation: A Preliminary Discourse

Daniel¹,

Habsari²

2019

CSID-JID

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“…(1) Public participation is an indispensable part of environmental pollution control and one of the fundamental ways to solve environmental problems [60,61]. It is suggested that whistleblowing be encouraged by reducing the whistleblowing cost and increasing the reward to a certain level [53].…”

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Does Whistleblowing Work for Air Pollution Control in China? A Study Based on Three-party Evolutionary Game Model under Incomplete Information

Yang

2019

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During China's air pollution campaign, whistleblowing has become an important way for the central government to discover local environmental issues. The three parties involved in whistleblowing are: the central government environmental protection departments, the local government officials, and the whistleblowers. Based on these players, this paper has constructed an Evolutionary Game Model under incomplete information and introduced the expected return as well as replicator dynamics equations of various game agents based on analysis of the game agents, assumptions, and payoff functions of the model in order to study the strategic dynamic trend and stability of the evolutionary game model. Furthermore, this paper has conducted simulation experiments on the evolution of game agents' behaviors by combining the constraints and replicator dynamics equations. The conclusions are: the central environmental protection departments are able to effectively improve the environmental awareness of local government officials by measures such as strengthening punishment on local governments that do not pay attention to pollution issues and lowering the cost of whistleblowing, thus nurturing a good governance and virtuous circle among the central environmental protection departments, local government officials, and whistleblowers. Based on the study above, this paper has provided policy recommendations in the conclusion.

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“…However, for her, the given spaces for thinking in participation were too narrow and the assertion of depoliticization in civic participation hampered the development of an understanding of how cities or planners may adapt their participatory strategies to meet competition in participation processes, because participation also triggered disputes and mobilized power and did not only help to regulate communities. One of the last studies conducted in the field was done by Brombal et al [20]. They evaluated public participation in the Chinese EIA in the case of the New Beijing Airport with the help of their integrated public participation index based on a multi-criteria decision analysis.…”

Section: Public Participation and Airport Development-a Review Of Thementioning

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“…The main conflict, however, is that neither the "informal referendum" nor the combination of it with the public participation had any legally binding basis. These inaccuracies or ambiguities about the role of public participation in the case of the site selection of BER suggest that there are likely inconsistencies in the objectives of public participation between different stakeholders, similar to the case of the EIA of the New Beijing Airport [20]. Against the background that China is an autocracy and Germany is a democracy, this shows that, regardless of a particular constitution, inconsistencies arise between stakeholders over the objectives of public participation and the role of public participation itself remains controversial.…”

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Public Participation and Airport Development: The Case of the Site Selection for Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Germany

2020

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Airport projects can have a significant impact on sustainable development. In Germany, as in many other developed countries, airport development is confronting a dilemma because, on the one hand, airports are important infrastructural components and, on the other hand, airport development faces strong resistance from local populations and interest groups. Thus, uncertainties and long time periods, up to 20 years from the beginning of planning to breaking ground, are quite normal. To ease airport development in Germany, administrative procedures and public participation were enhanced. Nevertheless, even with improved public participation, siting decisions in the case of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) were lengthy as usual and remain controversial today due to the selection of Schönefeld as the site. Against this background, it seems that public participation in the case of the BER site selection did not particularly deliver the hoped-for results, but why? To answer this question, Creighton’s principles of effective public participation are employed as benchmarks. Moreover, the benchmarking indicates that public participation was not effectively applied. Thus, the possible benefits of public participation could not or could only be partly reaped. Furthermore, from a broader politico-economic perspective, the analysis exposes that public participation was just “a small cog in the machine” of the BER site selection process. It seems that other factors had a more substantial influence on the siting decision than public participation and led decision makers, in addition to regular challenges, into a predicament that might have made Schönefeld the only possible siting solution. In this context, different counterfactual scenarios are discussed to show under which circumstances other outcomes might have occurred regarding the BER site selection.

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Evaluating public participation in Chinese EIA. An integrated Public Participation Index and its application to the case of the New Beijing Airport

Cited by 66 publications

References 17 publications

Informational Asymmetry in Public Participation on Environmental Monitoring in Indonesian Regulation: A Preliminary Discourse

Informational Asymmetry in Public Participation on Environmental Monitoring in Indonesian Regulation: A Preliminary Discourse

Does Whistleblowing Work for Air Pollution Control in China? A Study Based on Three-party Evolutionary Game Model under Incomplete Information

Public Participation and Airport Development: The Case of the Site Selection for Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Germany

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