Rethinking risk management policies: from 'participation' to processes of dialogue, debate, and negotiation

Authors
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • U. Fra Paleo
Book title Building safer communities: risk governance, spatial planning and responses to natural hazards
ISBN
  • 9781607500469
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781607505105
Series NATO science for peace and security series. Sub-series E, Human and societal dynamics
Event NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Spatial Planning as a Strategy for Migration and Adaptation to Natural Hazards
Pages (from-to) 34-43
Publisher Amsterdam: IOS Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Risk management requires integrating scientific and political processes to respond to public concerns legitimately and practically. Fostering public participation is easier to preach than to espouse. This chapter clarifies key elements of public participation—dialogue, debate, and negotiation—to help citizens and officials improve future participatory processes in settings demanding effective and responsive risk management.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-046-9-34
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