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This book, focusing on participation and environmental decision-making, must necessarily grapple with the issue of how to examine the often-hypothesised link between participatory efforts and the quality of resulting decision processes and outputs. The subject is complex, in part because of inherent conceptual intricacies. Most especially, as suggested in this chapter, participation is not a unidimensional notion; and decision quality, interpreted here as effectiveness of decisions and decision processes, is also a multidimensional concept. As a consequence, any effort to explore carefully the link between the two must unpack both sides of the complexity and expose not one but a full range of possible relationships. Such an exercise leads to clarification of another dilemma of participation and the environment: the relationship between participation and environmental decision effectiveness is likely to depend heavily on which dimensions or meanings of the concept are being considered.
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Cowie, G.M., O’Toole, L.J. (1998). Linking Stakeholder Participation and Environmental Decision-Making: Assessing Decision Quality for Interstate River Basin Management. In: Coenen, F.H.J.M., Huitema, D., O’Toole, L.J. (eds) Participation and the Quality of Environmental Decision Making. Environment & Policy, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5330-0_5
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