1. Environmental Public Participation in the UK.
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Voss, Hinrich
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ENVIRONMENTAL management , *SOCIAL participation , *POLLUTION -- Social aspects , *HUMAN ecology research , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze environmental public participation in the UK from the perspective of the polluting organization. Public participation, or an organization's stakeholder management, describes various channels available for the public to engage with and influence decision-making processes. Over the lifetime of an organization, the public seeks to engage with the organization or with specific goods or services offered. Such concerns and requests are made, and the organization responds to them, according to how salient members of the public are as stakeholders at a given time and place. Using case study examples from the UK, I illustrate the channels of engagement, the public interest groups that do engage and how effective these procedures are. It follows from this that early, inclusive and open engagement with the objective of participation in decision-making processes are the most effective public participation models and have the greatest social quality potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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