Public participation and local environmental planning: Testing factors influencing decision quality and implementation in four case studies from Germany |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Earth System Science Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands;2. Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands;3. Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies, The University of Hull, United Kingdom;1. LETG-Nantes, UMR 6554, Université de Nantes, BP 81227 Nantes, France;2. Marine Geosciences Laboratory (URAC 45), Earth Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, El Jadida, Morocco;3. Geosciences Laboratory, Earth Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, University Hassan II Ain Chock, Casablanca, Morocco;4. Geography Department, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Safi, Morocco;5. BIOMARE Laboratory, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, El Jadida, Morocco;1. ZIRIUS, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Risiko- und Innovationsforschung der Universität Stuttgart, Seidenstr. 36, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany;2. University of Stuttgart, Germany;3. Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig, Germany;1. School of Business, Curtin University, CDT 250, MIRI 98009, Sarawak, Malaysia;2. Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability, School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia;3. Board of Studies in Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, Berhampur University, Berhampur University, 760007, Orissa, India |
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| Abstract: | Public and stakeholder participation in environmental planning is often assumed to enhance effectiveness through improving the environmental quality of decisions and enhancing implementation. We draw on the literature on participatory environmental governance in order to derive key participation-related factors that are hypothesized to impact on decision quality and implementation. We then outline four cases of decision-making processes in local environmental planning in Germany, representing a variety of forms of public participation, and what we suggest can be seen as four different pathways to ‘success’ in participatory planning. The case studies, recounted on the basis of stakeholder interviews and secondary research, are subjected to a cross-case analysis in order to examine the influence of participation in each case. We consider how key participation-related factors played out across the cases, and assess both decision quality and implementation against counterfactual non-participatory, or less-participatory, scenarios. In moving beyond accounts of ‘what happened’, and considering how participation changed the order of things relative to ‘what would have happened’ under different scenarios, the research highlights how very different pathways may lead to ‘success’ in participatory environmental planning from the viewpoint of process organizers and planners sympathetic to environmental issues. We conclude that, given the significance of context and surprises, planners and process organizers must be open to different pathways to the successful conclusion of participatory planning processes. |
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| Keywords: | Participation Environmental governance Conflict resolution Water resources planning Urban planning Germany |
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