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Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation

Evaluating Models for Environmental Discourse

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Editors:
  1. Ortwin Renn

    1. Center for Technology Assessment, Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. Thomas Webler

    1. Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, USA

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  3. Peter Wiedemann

    1. National Research Center, Jülich, Germany

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Part of the book series: Risk, Governance and Society (RISKGOSO, volume 10)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. A Need for Discourse on Citizen Participation: Objectives and Structure of the Book

    • Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Peter Wiedemann
    Pages 1-15

  3. A Brief Primer on Participation: Philosophy and Practice

    • Thomas Webler, Ortwin Renn
    Pages 17-33

  4. “Right” Discourse in Citizen Participation: An Evaluative Yardstick

    • Thomas Webler
    Pages 35-86

  5. The Redemption of Citizen Advisory Committees: A Perspective from Critical Theory

    • Frances M. Lynn, Jack D. Kartez
    Pages 87-101

  6. Citizens’ Advisory Committee as a Model for Public Participation: A Multiple-Criteria Evaluation

    • Anna Vari
    Pages 103-115

  7. Planning Cells: A Gate to “Fractal” Mediation

    • Peter C. Dienel, Ortwin Renn
    Pages 117-140

  8. Review of “Planning Cells:” Problems of Legitimation

    • Hans-Jörg Seiler
    Pages 141-155

  9. Citizens Juries: One Solution for Difficult Environmental Questions

    • Ned Crosby
    Pages 157-174

  10. The Citizens’ Jury Model of Public Participation: A Critical Evaluation

    • Audrey Armour
    Pages 175-187

  11. The Varresbecker Bach Participatory Process: The Model of Citizen Initiatives

    • Frank Claus
    Pages 189-201

  12. The Varresbecker Bach Participatory Process: An Evaluation

    • Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer
    Pages 203-221

  13. Regulatory Negotiation as a Form of Public Participation

    • Daniel Fiorino
    Pages 223-237

  14. Regulatory Negotiation as Citizen Participation: A Critique

    • Susan G. Hadden
    Pages 239-252

  15. Mediation

    • Mike Baughman
    Pages 253-265

  16. Environmental Mediation: Insights into the Microcosm and Outlooks for Political Implications

    • Werner Nothdurft
    Pages 267-282

  17. Voluntary Siting of Noxious Facilities: The Role of Compensation

    • Howard Kunreuther
    Pages 283-295

  18. Voluntary Siting of Noxious Facilities: Additional Thoughts and Empirical Evidence

    • Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Bruno S. Frey
    Pages 297-304

  19. Direct Participation in Macro-Issues: A Multiple Group Approach An Analysis and Critique of the Dutch National Debate on Energy Policy, Fairness, Competence, and Beyond

    • Cees J. H. Midden
    Pages 305-320

  20. The Dutch Study Groups Revisited

    • Jeryl L. Mumpower
    Pages 321-337
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About this book

Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States and Europe came together to address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All the invited scholars from academia, international research institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental principle: For environmental policies to be effective and legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement, environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a framework for evaluating different models of public participation in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or political science communities in issues of public participation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Technology Assessment, Stuttgart, Germany

    Ortwin Renn

  • Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, USA

    Thomas Webler

  • National Research Center, Jülich, Germany

    Peter Wiedemann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation

  • Book Subtitle: Evaluating Models for Environmental Discourse

  • Editors: Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Peter Wiedemann

  • Series Title: Risk, Governance and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0131-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3517-7Published: 31 October 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3518-4Published: 31 October 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0131-8Published: 01 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2512-3076

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-3084

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 381

  • Topics: Environmental Management, Philosophy, general, Economic Policy

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