Full Description
The participation of the public sector in assessing the social impact of a wide range of projects is the focus of this ground-breaking book. Leading experts from the U.S. and Canada have contributed original articles based on their empirical research conducted in current impact situations. These are supplemented by the editors' analytical overviews
Contents
An Overview to the Research Conference on Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment -- Public Involvement: What, Why How -- Introduction -- Citizens' Participation and Effectiveness in Environmental Issues -- User-Oriented Evaluation: A New Way to View Citizen Participation -- Dialogue: Does It Increase Participant Knowledgeability and Attitude Congruence? -- The Citizen Advisory Group as an Integrative Tool in Regional Water Resources Planning -- Citizen Surveys as Citizen Participation Mechanisms -- Evaluating Public Participation: An Approach for Government Practitioners -- Analyzing Public Inputs to Environmental Planning: A Summary and Discussion of Public Involvement in Great Lakes Management -- Siting Hazardous Waste Management Facilities -- Citizen Participation in State and Local Government Control of Power Plant Siting -- The Use of Values: Public Participation in the Planning Process -- The Role of Public Involvement in Social Impact Assessment: Problems and Prospects -- Introduction -- Integrating Planning and Assessment Through Public Involvement -- A Participative Approach to Social Impact Assessment: A Proposed Mine Near Atlin, B.C. -- Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment: A Case History of the Coronado National Forest -- Colorado's Joint Review Process: The AMAX Experience -- Assessing the Validity of Public Involvement in Social Impact Assessment: The Community-Based Technology Assessment Program -- The Promise and Peril of Public Participation in Social Impact Assessment -- Social Impact Assessments and U.S. Forest Service Policy: The Case of the Oregon Range Validation Area -- A Social Assessment on the Zuni Indian Reservation -- The Consciousness-Raising Potential of Social Impact Assessment -- A Plan for Social Impact Assessment: Encouragement of Human Service Councils in Colorado's Oil Shale Region -- Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment: A Union Seeking Marriage -- The Future of Social Impact Assessment and Public Involvement -- Conclusion
