Evaluating public participation in environmental decision-making: EPA's superfund community involvement program

Charnley, Susan; Engelbert, Bruce

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.04.002

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“…The research team offered the participants a water management background and collected their feedback. More importantly, the team carried out the participatory procedure in a fair way via a two-way 20 communication process (Rowe andFrewer, 2004, Charnley andEngelbert, 2005;Zorrilla et Hydrol …”

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Development of a participatory Bayesian network model for integrating ecosystem services into catchment-scale water resources management

Xue

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Lei

et al. 2016

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Abstract. This paper proposes an ecosystem services-based integrated water resource management (IWRM) framework within which a participatory Bayesian network (BN) model that 15assists with the integration of IWRM is developed. The framework is divided three steps: (1) identifying water-related services of ecosystems; (2) analysis of the tradeoffs and synergy among users of water; and (3) ecosystem services-based IWRM implementation using the BN model. We present the development, evaluation and application of a participatory BN model with the involvement of four participant groups (stakeholders, water manager, water management experts, 20 and research team) in Qira oasis area, Northwest China. As a typical catchment-scale region, the Qira oasis area is facing severe water competition between the demands of human activities and natural ecosystems. We demonstrate that the BN model developed provides effective integration of ecosystem services into a quantitative IWMR framework via public negotiation and feedback. The network results, sensitivity evaluation, and management scenarios are broadly accepted by the 25 participant groups. The intervention scenarios from the model conclude that any water management measure remains unable to sustain the ecosystem health in water-related ecosystem services. Greater cooperation among the stakeholders is highly necessary for dealing with such water conflicts. In particular, a proportion of the agricultural water saved through improving water-use efficiency should be transferred to natural ecosystems via water trade. The BN model 30 developed is appropriate for areas throughout the world in which there is intense competition for water between human activities and ecosystems -particularly in arid regions.

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Development of a participatory Bayesian network model for integrating ecosystem services into catchment-scale water resources management

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Lei

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“…This is because although the cases of evaluation reviewed are numerous, certain important urban development projects/programmes (for example those considered largely profit-oriented and initiated monarchically) were not captured. Charnley and Engelbert (2005) state that written mail surveys were an effective and economical tool for obtaining feedback on the environmental protection community involvement programme. Their study disaggregated the citizen's understanding and satisfaction into four components: understanding of environmental and human health risks (associated with the studied site), satisfaction with information provided, opportunities for community input, and the agency's response to community input.…”

Section: Evaluation Of Public Participationmentioning

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Reviewing the Ambiguous: Examining the Typologies of Public Participation Towards Its Evaluation

Bello¹,

Dola²,

Yunos³

et al. 2013

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Arguments surrounding the epistemology, as well as practical manifestation of various typologies of public participation are enormous. This highlights not only the fluid and complex nature of the concept but also how strongly tied it is to time and place. While the typology of public participation is often viewed from the perspective of engagement levels, this paper uses a dual perspective approach to discuss the various forms of participation from the perspective of both engagement levels and motives, to that of specific contextual applications. The paper also draws from the practical experiences of planners in Malaysia and Nigeria to examine the relationship between evaluation approaches for public participation and the successes of participatory processes in planning projects. The perceived contribution of participatory mechanisms to a project's success is found to be inadequate in explaining the technique's contribution to the overall success of planning projects. Also, the motivation of (ex-ante) evaluation is more a determinant of the project success than the focus of evaluation. There is therefore a need for coherent frameworks to integrate previous evaluation experiences in to subsequent policy guides to improve further evaluation efforts as well as planning projects.

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“…Such practices may increase the community's trust in government, as well as their belief in the credibility of community health investigations and their acceptance of the results (Charnley & Engelbert, 2005).…”

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Community Ecology and Capacity: Advancing Environmental Communication Strategies among Diverse Stakeholders

Caron¹,

Rezaee²,

Dionne³

2011

Environmental Management in Practice

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Evaluating public participation in environmental decision-making: EPA's superfund community involvement program

Cited by 105 publications

References 16 publications

Development of a participatory Bayesian network model for integrating ecosystem services into catchment-scale water resources management

Development of a participatory Bayesian network model for integrating ecosystem services into catchment-scale water resources management

Reviewing the Ambiguous: Examining the Typologies of Public Participation Towards Its Evaluation

Community Ecology and Capacity: Advancing Environmental Communication Strategies among Diverse Stakeholders

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