Muting the Voice of the Local in the Age of the Global: How Communication Practices Compromised Public Participation in India's Allain Dunhangan Environmental Impact Assessment

Martin, Terri R.

doi:10.1080/17524030701642595

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“…Similar observations were made by Gray and Edward-Jones (2003), Paliwal (2006), Martin (2007), Sandham and Pretorius (2008) and Jalava et al (2010).…”

Section: Details Drugs Cement Highway Oilsupporting

confidence: 87%

Meta-analysis of EIA public hearings in the state of Gujarat, India: its role versus the goal of environmental management

Sainath

Rajan

2014

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Public consultation is an important decision-aiding process in environmental impact assessment (EIA) and aids in building up consensus between various stakeholders, primarily the local public. In this meta-analysis, proceedings of 100 public hearings (PHs) recorded in the Indian state of Gujarat were analysed for the views of local public between environmental issues and others while an industry is being set up across five sectors -bulk drug and drug intermediates, cement, highway projects, oil and gas exploration and thermal power plants. The analysis shows that environmental issues are only 33% of the total issues raised, while socio-economic, infrastructure, PH process, track record and other general issues cover 21%, 13%, 2%, 12% and 19%, respectively. This implies that irrespective of sector or project local socio-economic and developmental concerns outweigh environmental issues and the current PH process is not able to get the appropriate inputs and insights from the stakeholders in improving the environmental decision-making. In light of these, some alternatives for strengthening the EIA-PH process is proposed in the paper.

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“…Similar observations were made by Gray and Edward-Jones (2003), Paliwal (2006), Martin (2007), Sandham and Pretorius (2008) and Jalava et al (2010).…”

Section: Details Drugs Cement Highway Oilsupporting

confidence: 87%

Meta-analysis of EIA public hearings in the state of Gujarat, India: its role versus the goal of environmental management

Sainath

Rajan

2014

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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“…With a long tradition of studying public participation and decision making, environmental communication contributes critical insights to our understanding of (in)effective collaborations, participatory engagement, and environmental decision making [8,30,31]. For example, studies repeatedly demonstrate that processes that employ participatory communication strategies improve stakeholder experiences [32] and decision making [33], while ineffective processes can significantly harm the quality of decision making and stakeholder trust [15,34]. Researchers in the fields of applied anthropology and political science offer insights on critical features of partnerships [11,35].…”

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confidence: 99%

Strengthening Knowledge Co-Production Capacity: Examining Interest in Community-University Partnerships

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Building successful, enduring research partnerships is essential for improving links between knowledge and action to address sustainability challenges. Communication research can play a critical role in fostering more effective research partnerships, especially those concerned with knowledge co-production processes. This article focuses on community-university research partnerships and factors that influence participation in the co-production process. We identify specific pathways for improving partnership development through a prospective analytical approach that examines community officials' interest in partnering with university researchers. Using survey responses from a statewide sample of Maine municipal officials, we conduct a statistical analysis of community-university partnership potential to test a conceptual model of partnership interest grounded in natural resource management theory and environmental communication. Our findings both support and advance prior research on collaborations. Results reveal that belief in the helpfulness of the collaborator to solve problems, institutional proximity, familiarity, perceived problem severity and problem type and trust influence interest in developing community-university partnerships. These findings underscore the benefits of proactively assessing partnership potential prior to forming OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2013, 5 3745 partnerships and the important roles for communication research within sustainability science, especially with regard to strengthening partnership formation and knowledge co-production processes.

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“…Voice may be hindered through discursive closure (Deetz, 1992). In such cases discussion is unintentionally stifled or closed via a number of potential conversation mechanisms including but not limited to: naturalization-a given behavior is deemed natural and therefore not open to discussion; neutralization-a topic of discussion appears uncontestable because the "facts" appear neutral (such as statistics, for example, see Martin, 2007)-or pacification-a conversation appears to engage others but works contrarily to shut down or effectively stifle interaction.…”

Section: Participative Democracy and Voicementioning

confidence: 98%

Participative Democracy and Voice: Rethinking Community Collaboration Beyond Neutral Structures

Milam¹,

Heath²

2014

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Muting the Voice of the Local in the Age of the Global: How Communication Practices Compromised Public Participation in India's Allain Dunhangan Environmental Impact Assessment

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Meta-analysis of EIA public hearings in the state of Gujarat, India: its role versus the goal of environmental management

Meta-analysis of EIA public hearings in the state of Gujarat, India: its role versus the goal of environmental management

Strengthening Knowledge Co-Production Capacity: Examining Interest in Community-University Partnerships

Participative Democracy and Voice: Rethinking Community Collaboration Beyond Neutral Structures

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