TY - CHAP

T1 - Participation and Effective Environmental Governance

T2 - Causal mechanisms and beyond

AU - Kochskämper, Elisa

AU - Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm

AU - Newig, Jens

AU - Challies, Edward

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This chapter focuses on the ways in which public and stake-holder participation in public environmental decision-making is assumed to foster effective governance and secure environmental benefits. Claims abound that collaboration and participation in environmental governance can improve environmental outcomes, but decades of research and practice have yet to furnish an understanding of just how and under what conditions this should occur. The discursive space provided in the various participatory venues was generally not used to enter into intensive dialogue beyond the basic presentation of positions. Participation contributed to improving not just the ecological standard of planning documents, but also the implementation of measures and action on the ground. By exploring mechanisms in more cases of water resource management and beyond, findings of this analysis can potentially be set in a wider context, refined and contribute to a more solid understanding of the mechanisms at work.

AB - This chapter focuses on the ways in which public and stake-holder participation in public environmental decision-making is assumed to foster effective governance and secure environmental benefits. Claims abound that collaboration and participation in environmental governance can improve environmental outcomes, but decades of research and practice have yet to furnish an understanding of just how and under what conditions this should occur. The discursive space provided in the various participatory venues was generally not used to enter into intensive dialogue beyond the basic presentation of positions. Participation contributed to improving not just the ecological standard of planning documents, but also the implementation of measures and action on the ground. By exploring mechanisms in more cases of water resource management and beyond, findings of this analysis can potentially be set in a wider context, refined and contribute to a more solid understanding of the mechanisms at work.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

U2 - 10.4324/9781315193649

DO - 10.4324/9781315193649

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-1-138-71329-1

T3 - Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

SP - 149

EP - 159

BT - Participation for Effective Environmental Governance

A2 - Kochskämper, Elisa

A2 - Challies, Edward

A2 - Jager, Nicolas W.

A2 - Newig, Jens

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - London

ER -