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Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are functional, that is to say they see public participation as a means to an end. Sound solutions to environmental problems require participation beyond experts and political elites. Neglecting information from the public leads to legitimacy questions and potential conflicts.

There is a discourse in the literature and in policy practice as to whether decision-making improves in quality as additional relevant information by the public is considered. The promise that public participation holds has to be weighed against the limitations of public participation in terms of costs and interest conflicts. The question that Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions seeks to answer for academics, planners and civil servants in all environmental relevant policy fields is: What restricts and what enables information to hold the ‘promise’ that public participation lead to better environmental decision-making and better outcomes?

1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 1
Frans Coenen
2 Citizens’ Voices in Environmental Policy: The Contribution
of Integrated Assessment Focus Groups to Accountable
Decision-Making ......................................................................................... 21
Martin Welp, Bernd Kasemir, and Carlo C. Jaeger
3 The Use of Focus Groups in Assessing Ethnic and Racial
Group Concerns About Nuclear Waste Cleanup .................................... 35
Angela C. Halfacre
4 Planning Cells and Citizen Juries in Environmental Policy:
Deliberation and Its Limits ....................................................................... 57
Brendan Flynn
5 The Power of Visioning: The Contribution of Future Search
Conferences to Decision-Making in Local Agenda 21 Processes ........... 73
Angela Oels
6 Participatory Decision-Making for Sustainable Consumption .............. 89
Frans Coenen, Dave Huitema, and Johan Woltjer
7 Hazardous Waste Anyone?: A Comparison of Participatory
and Non-participatory Approaches to Hazardous Waste Siting ........... 111
Dave Huitema
8 Fora, Networks and Public Examinations: Building a Sustainable
Development for South East England ...................................................... 135
Joe Doak
9 Concepts of Participatory Decision-Making
in Dutch Infrastructure Planning ........................................................... 153
Johan Woltjer
10 Local Agenda 21: ‘Meaningful and Effective’ Participation? ............. 165
Frans Coenen
11 Conclusions ............................................................................................... 183
Frans Coenen
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