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Project Title:
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Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
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PIN:
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HDGC-I-00-02-A
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Major Unit:
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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Sub Unit:
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Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies
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RSO:
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Stern, Paul
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Project Scope
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This study would undertake a study of public participation processes in
environmental assessment and policy making in three stages. The first stage
will examine the burgeoning case-study, theoretical, and practical literature
on public participation and will develop preliminary lists of potentially
critical variables, outcome indicators, and causal hypotheses. In the second
stage, the panel will commission a small number of reviews of recent experience
in order to better inform government agencies, giving particular attention to
evaluation studies of past efforts, and adding a few new studies. In the third
stage, the panel will write a consensus statement about the implications of
current knowledge for public participation practice and research. The panel
will focus on: indicators of success and variables that may influence these
indicators; lessons from experience concerning which approaches work well under
which conditions; testable hypotheses that would allow verification or
refinement of such lessons; and ways that government agencies can learn
systematically from their own experience and the experience of others.
This project is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The
approximate starting date for the project was February 3, 2003. The duration
of the project is 20 months.
NOTE: The project duration has been extended and the report is expected to be issued in Fall 2007.
Update 2-11-08: The project duration has been extended. The report is in the review process and is expected to be completed in March.
Update 7-22-08: The report has cleared review and we will have a prepub before the end of August.
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Project Duration:
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20 months
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