Towards a "people centered" approach to participatory planning: analysis of the grass root level conflict over waste facility siting

This paper analyzes the role of both cooperative and oppositional modes of citizen participation in public decision making related to waste facility siting. Politicians, bureaucrats, and waste industry representatives embrace participatory planning as an equitable and efficient solution to the waste...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Deborah Marie
Other Authors: Urban Affairs and Planning
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43165
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06112009-063535/