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Showing 1 to 20 of 357 for “"public participation"”.
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Illuminating Identities and Motivations in Public Participation: Public Administrators' Perspectives about Public Participation in Local Government
… projects. The CDBG program emphasizes that public hearings are a requirement to obtain federal funding at the state and local levels. Also, HUD lists several other public participation methods that can be used in addition to public hearings. Further, the extant literature on public …
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Technology and public participation in environmental decisions
… of federal agency decisions and providing the public with opportunities to participate in the decision making process. For over 35 years, NEPA has defined the process by which agencies assess environmental impacts and disclose those assessments to the public. During this period however, NEPA …
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Achieving Justice Through Public Participation: Measuring the Effectiveness of New York's Enhanced Public Participation Plan for Environmental Justice Communities
<p>Public participation is at the heart of democracy and of the environmental justice movement. Most state-level environmental justice policies and regulations focus on improving public participation within administrative processes to ensure that communities have a voice in the environmental …
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Public participation in service delivery at Umhlathuze Municipality
… study aimed at examining the extent to which the public participates in service delivery, looking specifically at the level and nature of participation in service delivery processes, and perceptions communities have with regards to the type of services rendered. The study was necessitated by …
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Expanding Planning Public Participation Outreach Through Social Networking
<p>Public participation is not a form of civic responsibility that it once was. With not only fewer people taking part in the public participation process, there is a trend towards an older (45 years and older) group of residents that come to such meetings or workshops. Plans, such as Specific …
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Increasing public participation in British new town planning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1972. M.C.P.
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Public participation and environmental impact assessment in Romania: The case of Ro¿ia Montan¿. A call for the institutionalisation of public participation.
In this thesis I develop a critical theory of public participation and deliberation in post-communist Romania. Primarily, this theory is developed from a critical assessment of two intermediate-level Romanian institutions: the deliberative system that has formed to debate the authorisation of a …
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Public participation in environmental impact assessment in Puerto Rico
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Public participation in municipal service delivery in the eThekwini Municipality
… the degree of Master of Management Sciences in Public Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Public Participation In Transportation: An Emperical Test For Authentic Participation
This dissertation examines the public participation activities of State Departments of Transportation (SDOTs) in the United States. A review of existing literature and legal frameworks suggests that an "authentic" public participation results when dimensions of representativeness, use of public …
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Public participation in health care decision-making : the Canadian experience
Public participation in the policy process is being encouraged, is happening more frequently and is more valued. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in the area of health care. Canadians are becoming more involved in the health care decision-making process. They are taking a more active role …
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Public participation in planning for the Cathedral Peak hutted camp
A critique of the public participation process followed during planning for the development of an eco-tourism facility by the Natal Parks Board, in the Natal Drakensberg Park in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, during a period of political transition in 1994/95. A Preliminary Environmental Assessment …
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Public participation in shantytown transformation in China : a case study
Public participation is not a familiar concept in China but there is a growing demand from urban planners and policymakers in China to understand and utilize public participation tools. This research seeks to answer: How does the public participate in planning in China? What kind of participation …
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Public participation : principles and practice : the legal regulation of water pollution
The main body of the thesis is a detailed study of the practice of the legal regulation of water pollution, primarily between the period of 1 October 1983 and 31 August 1989, although reference is made to events preceding that period where necessary to provide a full assessment.
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Gentrification through Public Participation? Acceptance and Resistance in Calgary’s Inner Suburbs
This research examines the role of public participation in the planning process and its influence on suburban gentrification. Previous literature has critiqued the exclusionary nature of consensus-building and collaboration in urban planning processes, but there is little connection in the …
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People's Parliament? An assessment of public participation in South Africa's legislatures
… of the constitutional framework and policy for public participation in South Africa. I consider the question of how legislatures are fulfilling their obligations to facilitate public participation, if they meet international human rights law (IHRL) norms and the extent to which the public …
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Public participation and its relationship to conflict in national forest planning
… has been generated, the relationship between the participation process and the number of appeals has. come under question. This study proposes that, because public participation and the resolution of appeals are expenses to the Forest Service, the relationship between the two should be analyzed in …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Participation: Comprehensive Planning in San Marcos, TX
… of the relative effectiveness of different participation methods; however, there is little research on the overall value contributed by the public. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of public participation in urban planning by exploring citizens’ perceptions of their impact on the …
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