... structure and its one-way nature of communication, and the lack of attention to issues of public participation in policy-making – and issues of communication have been a central focus in the development and demands of environmental justice. Accepting the diversity and the situated experiences of individuals...

... needed to treat’ medical practice treatments medical research public participation ‘The most important maxim for data analysis, and one which statisticians have shunned, is this: Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question...

... Networks LINks non governmental organizations NGOs drug use needle and syringe programmes workplace health promotion alcohol use children and young people smoking health policy health promotion public health guidance NICE public participation ...

... policy River basin management plans RBMPs Parallel coordinating processes Netherlands United Kingdom United Kingdom Environmental Agency International river basin management plans IRBMPs Public participation Black Sea Black Sea NGO Network BSNN Danube Environmental Forum DEF Danube River basin...

... development authorities as a mechanism to secure more integrated and coherent trade and investment policy-making. Third, the chapter discusses transparency and public participation mechanisms, in agreement negotiations and the agreements themselves. Finally, it explores innovative dispute settlement...

... impact assessment environmental review trade and investment liberalization customary law legitimate expectation regional economic treaty bilateral economic treaty treaty interpretation public participation From the findings discussed in this volume, it can be concluded that States...

... is the most coherent articulation of PERs at the international level. The three components of PERs are: access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision-making, and access to environmental justice. PERs in India have evolved and the perception as to their purpose has changed...

... illustrate that EIAs and the manner in which they are conducted are a matter of concern to the international community, as are transparency, public participation, and access to justice. As already discussed in the previous section, EIAs are also conducted in those cases where international institutions...

...Recommended Reading S. Charnovitz , ‘ Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance ’ ( 1996 –7) 18 Mich. J. Int’l L. 184. J. Ebbesson , ‘ The Notion of Public Participation in International Environmental Law ’ ( 1997 ) 8 Y.B. Int’l Envt’l L. 51. A. Gowlland...

... Local Community Development Committee Lee J Quinn B Reidy T spending local government chief executive council councillors More Power To You policy capacity Bermingham Brian PPNs public participation networks Strategic Policy Committees SPCs Cork City Council CCC University College Cork UCC...

...This chapter evaluates whether neighbourhood planning has the potential to bring about more inclusive forms of public participation in and engagement with planning, or, on the contrary, to stir up social conflict. Neighbourhood planning ‘assumes a latent willingness and capacity within local...

...This chapter attempts to summarize public sociology as a theoretical debate and a routine practice online and offline. It emphasizes the desire to use both sociology and social media platforms to stimulate civic engagement and public participation. It also discusses several propositions...

..., integration of effective public participation, and creation of metrics for evaluating sites to assess lifecycle impacts of remediation and reuse. Brownfields and contaminated sites Redevelopment Remediation Climate change Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act CERCLA Superfund...

...This chapter explores the tension between the expectation of ‘public participation’ in areas of high technological complexity, and sometimes limited engagement with the results of participatory exercises by decision makers. The chapter examines in particular the ways in which legal contexts (eg...

... austerity measures government policy on planning Department for Communities and Local Government budget projections Public participation Collaborative planning Pro-poor planning The previous chapter set out the key assumptions and elements of the growth-dependent model of planning. This has made...

... and reinterpretation of public participation by ordinary people after the American Revolution. Non-elites actively produced speech and writing, often to articulate their own roles as cultural arbiters or to envision an alternative view of the public sphere. Compared with the messy beginnings of the 1780s which had...

... respondents agreed or disagreed with various statements relating to public participation and planning on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree to 5 (strongly agree) Likert statement n Median Mode % strongly disagree % disagree % undecided % agree % strongly agree More...

...This chapter explores the politics of public participation in the context of Chattanooga’s 35-year, citizen-driven return to the Tennessee riverfront. Though the city has won numerous awards for its citizen-driven planning initiatives, the success of early revitalization programs...

...This concluding chapter argues that mass mobilization and public participation have contributed to the democratic breakthrough in Kosovo and its subsequent democratic development. Unlike state bureaucracies that vary in their performance, the various democratic institutions of elections, the media...

... to the city food freedom agency Informal green spaces ecosystem services open design theory public participation common goods urban landscape When considering the issue of social justice in relation to space and landscape, questions regarding human rights ( Mitchell, 2016 ), green spaces distribution...