Decision aiding, not dispute resolution: Creating insights through structured environmental decisions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gregory, R; McDaniels, T; Fields, D
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-7018
• DOI: 10.1002/pam.1001.abs
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 415-432
• 关键词: preferences

摘要

Public participation in environmental decisions has become commonplace. A fa vored model for public input is to use the tools of dispute resolution to seek consensus among members of a multi-party stakeholder group. The authors believe that a focus on dispute resolution and consensus building can pose impediments to the creation of insights for decisionmakers and lead to the adoption of inferior policy choices. Instead, they advocate an a alternative approach to stakeholder participation characterized as decision aiding through a structured process based on constructive, multi-attribute techniques and value-focused thinking. In this paper some of. the major difficulties posed by a dispute-resolution approach ave articulated, the principles of a decision-aiding process reviewed, and this alternative approach illustrated by describing a stakeholder consultation involving water-use planning for a hydroelectric facility on the Alouette River in British Columbia, Canada. (C) 2001 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.