Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making,9780791460238

Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making

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ISBN13: 9780791460238
ISBN10: 0791460231
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-06-23
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(12)
Stephen P. Depoe
John W. Delicath
Part One. Theorizing and Constructing More Effective Public Participation Processes
The Trinity of Voice: The Role of Practical Theory in Planning and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Participatory Processes
13(22)
Susan L. Senecah
A Social Communication Perspective Toward Public Participation: The Case of the Cispus Adaptive Management Area
35(24)
Amanda C. Graham
Competing and Converging Values of Public Participation: A Case Study of Participant Views in Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Cleanup
59(24)
Jennifer Duffield Hamilton
Public Expertise: A Foundation for Citizen Participation in Energy and Environmental Decisions
83(16)
William J. Kinsella
Part Two. Evaluating Mechanisms for Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Decide, Announce, Defend: Turning the NEPA Process into an Advocacy Tool Rather than a Decision-Making Tool
99(14)
Judith Hendry
The Roadless Areas Initiative as National Policy: Is Public Participation an Oxymoron?
113(24)
Gregg B. Walker
Public Participation and (Failed) Legitimation: The Case of Forest Service Rhetorics in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
137(20)
Steve Schwarze
Public Involvement, Civic Discovery, and the Formation of Environmental Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Fernald Citizens Task Force and the Fernald Health Effects Subcommittee
157(18)
Stephen P. Depoe
Public Participation or Stakeholder Frustration: An Analysis of Consensus-Based Participation in the Georgia Ports Authority's Stakeholder Evaluation Group
175(26)
Caitlin Wills Toker
``Free Trade'' and the Eclipse of Civil Society: Barriers to Transparency and Public Participation in NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas
201(22)
J. Robert Cox
Part Three. Emergent Participation Practices Among Activist Communities
Global Governance and Social Capital: Mapping NGO Capacities in Different Institutional Contexts
223(12)
Amos Tevelow
Toxic Tours: Communicating the ``Presence'' of Chemical Contamination
235(20)
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Art and Advocacy: Citizen Participation Through Cultural Activism
255(12)
John W. Delicath
Bibliography 267(34)
List of Contributors 301(4)
Index 305

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