Some reflections on civics and civil society as grounding for urban environmental management.
From: Environments
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Date: 8/1/2001
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Author: Dempster, Beth
Abstract
The diversity, complexity and uncertainty of issues and concerns relevant to urban environmental management require new alternative approaches -- especially for the interconnected processes of planning, decision-making and inquiry. This paper advocates explicitly addressing and encouraging these interconnections through the development of civic processes, by integrating interactive, interdisciplinary and participatory principles. Problematic aspects of participatory ...
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