Citizen Participation and Environmental Risk: A Survey of Institutional Mechanisms

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...

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Published in:Science, technology, & human values technology, & human values, 1990-04, Vol.15 (2), p.226-243
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Citizen Participation
College Science
Communities
Delegation of authority
Democratic theory
Environmental agencies
Environmental Education
Environmental policy
Environmental risk
Hearings
Higher Education
Political debate
Public administration
Public hearings
Public Opinion
Science and Society
Science Education
Surveys
Technology
United States
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College Science
Communities
Delegation of authority
Democratic theory
Environmental agencies
Environmental Education
Environmental policy
Environmental risk
Hearings
Higher Education
Political debate
Public administration
Public hearings
Public Opinion
Science and Society
Science Education
Surveys
Technology
United States
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