The Narrative of Public Participation in Environmental Governance and its Normative Presuppositions

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umberto Sconfienza
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance

scholarly journals The Relationship among Government, Enterprise, and Public in Environmental Governance from the Perspective of Multi-Player Evolutionary Game

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingxin Chen ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Pandu R. Tadikamalla ◽  
Xutong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Industrial Wastes ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Government Supervision ◽  
The Government ◽  
Positive Effect

Environmental governance is an important component of the national governance system. China’s current environmental problems are particularly complex. How to let the government, enterprises, and the public participate in environmental governance is the key to enhance the ability of environmental governance. Based on the evolutionary game theory, the interaction and influencing factors among enterprise pollution control, government supervision, and public participation are analyzed, and the empirical analysis is carried out based on China’s 30 provincial panel data from 2009 to 2018. The research results show that government supervision has a positive effect on the environmental governance and can urge enterprises to actively perform pollution control. The effect of government supervision is constrained by the income and cost of enterprises, and the penalties for passive pollution control should be raised. At the same time, improving the government’s reputation loss can effectively stimulate the government’s environmental supervision behavior. Public participation significantly promotes the governance effect of three industrial wastes, and the enthusiasm of public participation is closely related to participation cost and psychological benefits. Public participation can replace government supervision to a certain extent. The interaction between government and public has a positive effect on environmental governance. The research results will help to build an effective environmental governance system and improve environmental governance performance and public satisfaction.

scholarly journals The democratic legitimacy of public participation in planning: Contrasting optimistic, critical, and agnostic understandings

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-370
Author(s):  
Sherif Zakhour
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Participatory Governance ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Individual Citizen ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations

How does public participation in planning and environmental governance engender democratic legitimacy? Drawing a distinction between the optimistic and critical participation literature, I argue that both these strands of research have tended to neglect the public’s perspective on this question. This oversight has, in effect, produced strongly normative and essentialist understandings of democratic legitimacy that treat legitimicy as intrinsic to either process or substance of participatory governance. Proceeding from an anti-essentialist understanding of democratic legitimacy, which primarily relies on contemporary social perceptions and expectations of democratic institutions, I outline a normatively agnostic framework for exploring how legitimacy is engendered through participation. Using this framework to investigate citizen experiences of participation processes in Sweden, I highlight how democratic legitimacy can gainfully be understood as a multidimensional, provisional, and contingent quality that individual citizen participants “confer” and “retract” in a plurality of ways. Based on this, I conclude by suggesting that sustained research engagement with the public’s expectations and experiences of participatory governance can reveal critical insights into the potentials and challenges for realizing democratic planning outcomes.

scholarly journals The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo ◽  
Bai
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Environmental Enforcement ◽  
The Public

As an essential stakeholder of environmental resources, the public has become the third force which assists in promoting environmental governance, together with local governments and polluting enterprises. In this paper, we construct a mediation model and a 2SLS (Two Stage Least Square) model to illustrate the role of public participation based on inter-provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2015. The results indicate that the advantages of handling informational asymmetry and enhancing social supervision are the two logical starting points of involving public participation in environmental governance. As the public has no executive power, they can participate in environmental governance in an indirect way by lobbying local governments’ environmental enforcement of polluting enterprises. In addition, their deterrent of polluting enterprises can also generate effects similar to local governments’ environmental enforcement, and such a deterrent will help promote environmental governance directly. At the present time in China, the effects of public participation in environmental governance are mainly reflected in the form of back-end governance, while the effects of front-end governance are not remarkable enough. This research is of great significance in perfecting China’s environmental governance system by means of arousing and expanding the public’s rights to participate in environmental governance.

Public Involvement in Environmental Governance: Review of Benin's Experiences

2013 ◽  
Vol 798-799 ◽  
pp. 1162-1165
Author(s):  
Junior Bloh Nignilo Adohinzin ◽  
Ling Xu ◽  
Shu Shen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Good Method ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Integral Procedure ◽  
Republic Of Benin ◽  
Benin Republic

Nowadays public participation is recognized as an integral procedure to achieving sustainable development as well as a good method of environmental governance. This study aimed to improve the quality of public participation in the field of environmental governance. To this end, it used Benin republic as a case study to provide an analytical review of two public participation approaches developed in Republic of Benin for environmental management. Results highlighted some keys limitation of each of those approaches. The study concludes with recommendations to improve the quality of public participation application in Benin.

scholarly journals China’s Environmental Protection in the New Era from the Perspective of Eco-civilization Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Qingzhi Qingzhi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
New Era ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Radical Reconstruction

Under a particular context of China’ eco-civilization construction in the New Era after the 18th national congress of CPC, an interesting question is that the discourse of socialist eco-civilization and its practice can to what an extent reshape or change the relationship among eco-capital, green technology and public participation in achieving a better environmental governance. A field-study in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, shows clearly that there are both great hope for a radical reconstruction and multitudinous difficulties and challenges in front of the pioneering Green enterprises and the pilot areas of eco-civilization construction.

Trust and Collaborative Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc J. Stern ◽  
Alexander Hellquist
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Urban Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between urban environmental education programs and urban environmental governance in light of the “deliberative turn”—a shift away from “government” toward “governance,” including in urban planning and policy making, and the acceptance of stakeholder participation and dialogue as crucial elements in governance related to complex urban issues. The deliberative turn emphasizes the importance of public participation, attention to both purposive and inadvertent forms of exclusion, the value of dialogue among stakeholders, and the creation of an environment in which the distorting effects of power are diminished. The chapter examines “wicked” urban sustainability issues that call for collaborative governance based on deliberation and argues that urban environmental literacy should include an understanding of governance and skills related to productive deliberation. It also explains how an understanding of mechanisms for the development of trust can enhance the potential for constructive deliberation and collaborative governance.

Can Police Patrols Prevent Pollution? The Limits of Authoritarian Environmental Governance in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise van der Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Environmental Enforcement ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
High Profile

China’s high-profile anti-pollution campaigns have fueled theories of authoritarian environmental efficiency. In a regime where bureaucrats are sensitive to top-down scrutiny, central campaigns are expected to be powerful tool for reducing pollution. Focusing on China’s nationwide pollution inspections campaign, I assess these claims of authoritarian efficiency. I find that central inspections (or “police patrols”) have no discernable impact on air pollution. I argue that inspections were ineffective because environmental enforcement requires a degree of sustained scrutiny that one-off campaigns cannot provide. The deterrent effect of inspections is also undercut by the regime’s ambivalence towards independent courts and unsupervised public participation. These findings suggest that China’s obstacles to pollution enforcement may be greater than anticipated, and theories of authoritarian efficiency overlook gaps in authoritarian state capacity.

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