Resources
Documents
Some Notes on Participation and Public Audiences
(Algunos Apuntes de Aproximación sobre Participación y Audiencias Públicas)
Article written by the "Asociación Marplatense de Estudios Ambientales Integrales" (AMEAI).
Access to Public Information
(Acceso a la Información Pública)
A paper written for the "Asociación Marplatense de Estudios Ambientales Integrales (AMEAI)".
Access to Public Information, the Environment and Sustainable Development
(Acceso a la Información Pública, el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo Sustentable)
Manual written by FARN, 1997.
Building Community Collaboration and Consensus
On-line module about capacity-building for different types of community organizations. Created by C.R. Pete Petersen.
Citizen Control for the Right to a Healthy Environment in the City of Buenos Aires and its Metropolitan Area
(El Control Ciudadano del Derecho a un Medio Ambiente Sano en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y su Área Metropolitana)
A volume compiled by FARN in 2001 contating articles which discuss environmental and legal-institutional aspects of citizen control for the right to a healthy environment.
- Doors to Democracy Series
Series of REC publications: -
- Current Trends and Practices in Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking
- A Pan-European Assessment of Current Trends and Practices in Public Participation in Environmental Matters
Integrating Development and
Public Participation into International Environmental Governance:
a Latin American perspective on a World Environmental Organization
Article by Dr. Daniel Ryan, Assistant Executive Director of FARN, as a contribution to the debate on how to improve international environmental governance.
International Association For Public Participation (IAP2) - Practioner's Tools
These materials manual are copyrighted by IAP2. With proper attribution to IAP2, they encourage their widespread use to improve public participation programs.
Land Use Planning: Civic Participation
Published by the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, a project of the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Contains links to other documents and case studies.
Local Participation and Environmental Management
(La Participación Vecinal y la Gestión del Medio Ambiente)
Manual created by FARN, 1995.
Manual on Public Participation in Environment Decision-Making
REC's publication deals with the current practices and future possibilities for public participation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Municipal Energy: Education and Public Participation
Publication by the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, a project of the United States Energy Department. Contains case studies.
New Tools for Civic Action in Defense of Environmental Rights.
A Manual created for Fundación Poder Ciudadano.
Participatory democracy, environment and sustainability
(Democracia participativa, ambiente y sustenabilidad)
Article by Dr. Daniel Ryan, Assistant Executive Director of FARN, proposing the link between the "active" and "institutional" components of participatory democracy.
The People´s Communication Charter
The first draft of the People´s Communication Charter was written by media specialists and activists in preparation for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1998.
Public Audiences in the Municipalities of Patagonia
(Audiencias Públicas en los Municipios Patagónicos)
A paper written by FARN for the Public Audience Program in the Municipality of Patagonia.
Public Participation and Municipal Autonomy
(Participación Pública y Autonomía Municipal)
Training manual written by FARN in 2001 as a tool for the Autonomy and Participation Program.
Public Participation Documentation Center
The Public Participation Issue Group is one of the six Issue Groups of the European ECO Forum (former NGO working group for Environment for Europe). Their activities are closely connected to the "Campaign to Improve conditions for Public Participation and Realise Adequate Rights to Know in Europe", which is managed by the European Environmental Bureau, Friends of the Earth and SNM. In October 1996, the Steering Committee from Western and Eastern Europe were elected and mandated to facilitate NGO involvement in the preparatory process for the Aarhus conference.
Report of the Secretary General of the OAS on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Measures at the Summit in Bolivia
The objective of the paper was to report on the experiences of different countries in the region where local governments and civil society collaborated to address various environmental problems within the institutional frameworks and environmental policies of the respective countries.
Role of Local Governments and Public Participation in Environmental Management
Final Report of the Inter-American Seminar Barquisimeto, Venezuela, June 11-13, 1996
Status of Public Participation Practices in Environmental Decisionmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
REC publication: Case Studies of Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
Towards an ECE Convention on Access to Environmental Information and Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking
At the Third Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe", held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 1995, Environment Ministers from all over Europe, the US, Canada and the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union made two important decisions related to access to environmental information and public participation.
Why
doesn't the government respond to the participating public?
Article by Mike Williams published on the ezine Vanguard Online, in
December 2002. Available in Word format.
World
Bank Participation Sourcebook
The World Bank Participation Sourcebook follows the definition of
participation adopted by the Bank's Learning Group on Participatory
Development: Participation is a process through which stakeholders
influence and share control over development initiatives and the decisions
and resources which affect them. The Sourcebook is primarily intended
for readers who have already decided to use participatory approaches
in their professional work.
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