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Public participation in environmental impact assessment: why, who and how?

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A comprehensive overview of the academic debate on public participation in EIA concerning its meaning, objectives and adequate level of inclusiveness can be found in this article, where the authors aim to stimulate a more focused debate on the subject, which is key to advancing the research agenda.
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This article is published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 258 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public participation.

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Environmental performance evaluation with big data: Theories and methods

TL;DR: The feasibility, reliability, and stability of existing theories and methodologies should be thoroughly validated before they can be successfully applied to evaluate environmental performance in practice and provide scientific basis and guidance to formulate environmental protection policies.
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Assessing the Governance Capacity of Cities to Address Challenges of Water, Waste, and Climate Change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a governance capacity framework focusing on five governance challenges: 1) water scarcity, 2) flood risk, 3) wastewater treatment, 4) solid waste treatment and 5) urban heat islands.
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Evaluating EIA systems' effectiveness: A state of the art

TL;DR: The effectiveness of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is an important topic in EIA literature as mentioned in this paper, where the manifold term "effectiveness" has been delineated into four dimensions: Procedural, substantive, transactive, and normative.
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Coproducing flood risk management through citizen involvement: insights from cross-country comparison in Europe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt the notion of coproduction as an analytical framework for studying the interaction between citizens and public authorities, from the decision-making process through to the implementation of flood risk management (FRM) in practice.
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Governance of the Sponge City Programme in China with Wuhan as a case study

TL;DR: In 2015, China's national government initiated a Sponge City Programme to address its urban flood issues as discussed by the authors, a sponge city is a city built around the concept of managing water in an ecologically sustainable environment.
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A Ladder of Citizen Participation

TL;DR: Beskriver ulike grader av brukermedvirkning, og regnes som en klassiker innenfor temaet Brukermedveirkning og psykisk helsearbeid as discussed by the authors.
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Breaking the impasse : consensual approaches to resolving public disputes

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory and practice of Dispute Resolution Sources of Difficulty Unassisted Negotiation Mediation and Other Forms of Assisted Negotiation Taking Action is presented. But this paper is not a comprehensive survey.
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International Principles For Social Impact Assessment

TL;DR: The International Principles for Social Impact Assessment (IPSA) as discussed by the authors is a set of principles to guide SIA practice and the consideration of "the social" in environmental impact assessment generally.
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Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD) remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global order, yet how SD is conceptualized and practiced hinges crucially on: the willingness of scholars and practitioners to embrace a plurality of epistemological and normative perspectives on sustainability; the multiple interpretations and practices associated with the evolving concept of "development"; and efforts to open up a continuum of local-to-global public spaces to debate and enact a politics of sustainability.
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