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Shaping Water Quality Decisions: An Evaluation of a Public Consultation Programme
Effective natural resources management is enhanced when scientific understanding is coupled with informed public support. Public consultation panels were used by the Canadian/U.S. International Reference Group on Great Lakes Pollution from Land Use Activities (PLUARG) set up by the International Joint Commission (I.J.C.). This paper assesses the utilization of the input from the public consultation panels by means of a comparative content analysis of the eight Canadian panels' reports and the PLUARG draft report. This approach yields objective data and replicable research. The findings from a parallel study of the 17 U.S./Canadian panels are also discussed.
More than 30 issues were raised in the panel reports; of these, 17 were examined in detail. The most critical step in the analysis is the compilation of a list of questions that reflect the content of each presentation and of the planning report. On the basis of this comparative analysis, fourteen of the land use activities discussed by the panels were dismissed in the PLUARG Draft Report as being local in nature or as being point sources (as opposed to diffuse sources).
Agricultural land uses, urban run-off and waste disposal from septic tanks and industrial sources were recognized by practically all the panels as serious sources of pollution from land use activities to the Great Lakes. PLUARG and the public consultation panels showed a veiy high degree of congruency on these three critical issues.
The main lesson from the case study is that the public should have been consulted earlier, i.e. when the terms of reference were set so that the public's views on which issues needed attention would be more congruent with the planners' views.
Shaping Water Quality Decisions: An Evaluation of a Public Consultation Programme
Effective natural resources management is enhanced when scientific understanding is coupled with informed public support. Public consultation panels were used by the Canadian/U.S. International Reference Group on Great Lakes Pollution from Land Use Activities (PLUARG) set up by the International Joint Commission (I.J.C.). This paper assesses the utilization of the input from the public consultation panels by means of a comparative content analysis of the eight Canadian panels' reports and the PLUARG draft report. This approach yields objective data and replicable research. The findings from a parallel study of the 17 U.S./Canadian panels are also discussed.
More than 30 issues were raised in the panel reports; of these, 17 were examined in detail. The most critical step in the analysis is the compilation of a list of questions that reflect the content of each presentation and of the planning report. On the basis of this comparative analysis, fourteen of the land use activities discussed by the panels were dismissed in the PLUARG Draft Report as being local in nature or as being point sources (as opposed to diffuse sources).
Agricultural land uses, urban run-off and waste disposal from septic tanks and industrial sources were recognized by practically all the panels as serious sources of pollution from land use activities to the Great Lakes. PLUARG and the public consultation panels showed a veiy high degree of congruency on these three critical issues.
The main lesson from the case study is that the public should have been consulted earlier, i.e. when the terms of reference were set so that the public's views on which issues needed attention would be more congruent with the planners' views.
Shaping Water Quality Decisions: An Evaluation of a Public Consultation Programme
Grima, A. P. (author)
Water International ; 8 ; 120-126
1983-01-01
7 pages
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