Community Based Environmental Decision Making Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop in the Environmental Policy and Economics
Workshop Series
Summary
These are the proceedings from a one-day
workshop cosponsored by US EPA Office of Economy and Environment
and National Center for Environmental Research and the National
Science Foundation Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program.
It explores
the issues surrounding "Community Based Environmental Protection." The
first
session, "Approaches to Valuing the Environment," approaches valuation from the
viewpoint of both individual and group, or democratic, preferences and implications
for current valuation methods. The second session, "Stakeholder Participation
and Decision Making," discusses and evaluates approaches to group decision making.
The third session discussed "Cooperation in Environmental
Decision Making," which examines the effectiveness of voluntary versus command
and control regulations in communities. The full agenda for
the workshop is available.
