As federal, state, and local governments and agencies respond to calls to make decisions
and implement programs according to tenets of 'good governance', a need exists to develop …

The purpose of this report is to improve understanding of the complex sociopolitical
processes related to resource management and to help structure management response to …

Aspects of Australian natural resource management, particularly forestry, such as harvesting
from public native forests and establishing large-scale plantations on farmland, have been …

We conducted a case study of the citizen participation processes used by the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) when deciding whether to …

Public participatory techniques have been the focus of a large and growing body of
environmental literature. There is some consensus among those who study these …

In the late 1990s China started to expand its market economic reform to the public sector,
such as water services. This reform led to major changes in urban water management …

Recent evolution of the wildlife management institution in the United States includes
adoption of good governance principles, wherein stakeholders expect and are provided …

Traditional mechanisms for public participation in environmental impact assessment under
US federal law have been criticized as ineffective and unable to resolve conflict. As these …

This paper reviews the literature on public involvement in the context of public land
management agencies with particular attention to public involvement activities in the …

Although researchers agree that public participation in natural resource decision making is
critical to institutional acceptance by stakeholders and the general public, the processes to …