Because the power industry is anticipating greatly increased generating capacity requirements in the 1990s, political controversy over electricity demand and supply is likely to return to--and perhaps surpass--the level of rancor experienced during the 1970s. Fortunately, a sizable number of utility companies have come to believe that destructive c
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 89: Public Participation Strategies for Transit documents the state-of-the-practice in terms of public participation strategies to inform and engage the public for transit-related activities.
Transportation Planning and Public Participation: Theory, Process, and Practice explains why, and then how, transportation professionals can treat public participation as an opportunity to improve their projects and identify problems before they do real damage. Using fundamental principles based on extensive project-based research and insights drawn from multiple disciplines, the book helps readers re-think their expectations regarding the project process. It shows how public perspectives can be productively solicited, gathered, modeled, and integrated into the planning and design process, guides project designers on how to ask the proper questions and identify strategies, and demonstrates the tradeoffs of different techniques. Readers will find an analytic and evaluation framework - along with process design guidelines - that will help improve the usefulness and applicability of public input. - Shows how to apply quantifiable metrics to the public participation process - Helps readers critically analyze and identify project properties that impact public participation process decisions - Provides in-depth examples that demonstrate how feedback, representation, and decision modeling can be integrated to achieve outcomes - Demonstrates basic principles using examples from a wide range of types and scales - Presents tactics on how to make public meetings more efficient and satisfying by integrating appropriate visualizations
Authored by engineers and attorneys who regularly counsel local government clients on environmental compliance issues, the Municipal Environmental Compliance Manual presents a plain English overview of federal environmental requirements as they apply to local government activities. This book discusses Superfund liability and how it is most likely to affect by cities, towns, and counties. Expert advice is included on how to minimize a municipality's risk with regard to Superfund liability. This book helps you to identify compliance issues in any department and offers questions that will help you find out whether your local government functions in compliance with the law. Other major topics include:
Showing professionals how to produce a long-term Integrated Resource Plan for their water utility, this comprehensive manual covers such topics as estimating future water demand, evaluating new sources of water, involvement of stakeholders in the planning process, and dealing with expanding environmental regulations.
Deals with the problem of eutrophication of lakes and reservoirs by looking at its origin, consequences, solutions, and prognosis. The book first considers environmental causes, social and cultural aspects, and new strategies for policy, institutional and regulatory frameworks. It then deals with the importance of public awareness and education, and describes possible economic impacts, technological solutions, and management arrangements. Examples from different countries and ecosystems are included. The index does not cite page numbers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
This book critically examines the public participation processes in urban planning and development by evaluating the operations of Planning Advisory Committees (PACs) through two meta-criteria of fairness and effectiveness. Traditional models of public participation in planning have long been criticized for separating planners from the public. This book proposes a novel conceptual model to address the gaps in existing practices in order to encourage greater public involvement in planning decisions and policymaking. It assesses the application of the evaluative framework for PACs as a new approach to public participation evaluation in urban planning. With a case study focused on the PACs in Inner City area of Canberra, Australia, the book offers a conceptual framework for evaluating fairness and effectiveness of the public participation processes that can also be extended to other countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Scandinavian countries, the European Union, and some Asian countries such as India. Offering valuable insights on how operational processes of PACs can be re-configured, this book will be a useful guide for students and academics of planning and public policy analysis, as well as the planning professionals in both developed and developing countries.