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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Citizen Participation and Environmental Risk: A Survey of Institutional Mechanisms
Contributor:
Fiorino, Daniel J.
imprint:
SAGE Publications, 1990
Published in:Science, Technology, & Human Values
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/016224399001500204
ISSN:
0162-2439;
1552-8251
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p> Standard approaches to defining and evaluating environmental risk tend to reflect technocratic rather than democratic values. One consequence is that institutional mechanisms for achieving citizen participation in risk decisions rarely are studied or evaluated. This article presents a survey of five institutional mechanisms for allowing the lay public to influence environmental risk decisions: public hearings, initiatives, public surveys, negotiated rule making, and citizens review panels. It also defines democratic process criteria for assessing these and other participatory mechanisms. </jats:p>