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Experiments in Regional Environmental Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

William E. Felling
Affiliation:
Program Officer, Resources and Environment, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017, U.S.A.

Extract

The deterioration of the physical environment in many metropolitan areas is a fact of modern life. In the United States the traditional alignment of power and institutions have proved to be ineffective in coping with environmental problems. Obvious as is this disparity between the nature of regional environmental management problems and the administrative machinery established to remedy it, too little serious effort has been made so far to do better.

The six experiments described here represent an effort to expand the environmental data-base, to improve the capacity of elected officials and their civil servants to anticipate better the consequences of a variety of environmental decisions, and to provide the broadest possible range of contributing citizens—so that environmental decision-making can become truly participatory. All of the regions involved have so far enjoyed more success technically than in the matters of transfer of information and improving citizen participation.

Type
Main Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1974

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