Ban on commercial fishing in the estuarine waters of New South Wales, Australia: Community consultation and social impacts

Momtaz, Salim; Gladstone, William Ewart

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2007.03.001

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“…Our results also revealed that consultation has a moderately positive contribution to environmental decisions. This is in line with previous research that found consultation of civil society in the early stages of the decision-making improves environmental decisions (Adomokai and Sheate 2004;Langer, Decker, and Menrad 2017;Momtaz and Gladstone 2008). Additionally, consultation passively changes the attitude of organized citizens towards the government, leading to public acceptance of decisions since it generates some level of confidence in the decision-making process.…”

Section: Degrees Of Participation In Environmental Decisionssupporting

confidence: 91%

Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: evidence from Somalia

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Diriye

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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Section: Degrees Of Participation In Environmental Decisionssupporting

confidence: 91%

Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: evidence from Somalia

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Liu

Diriye

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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Inclusion of the public in environmental decision making was one of the key rationales for NEPA (Canter ). There have been many critiques arguing that the process has not met its ideal (Cooper and Elliot ; Lawrence ; O'Faircheallaigh ), and others arguing for more inclusive approaches (Hartley and Wood ; Momtaz and Gladstone ; Stewart and Sinclair ), but little is actually known what the result of public participation in EIA in the United States is.…”

Section: Eia Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Management and Risk Avoidance in Agency Decision Making

Eckerd

2014

Public Administration Review

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Despite decades of efforts to enhance the public's role in bureaucratic decision making, citizens still tend to have little influence on the decisions that public managers make. Solutions often focus on the processes or structures of participation, but such changes may be of limited effectiveness if the structure is only part of the problem. Although much research has argued the normative justification for including the public, noting that frameworks that do not encourage genuine participation may diminish rather than enhance public influence, there has been less focus on how participants’ divergent frames of reference may also diminish the influence of public input. This research explores this gap from a risk management perspective, suggesting that public managers tend to view risk as something to be managed, whereas citizens tend to view risk as best avoided.

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“…In the case of MPAs and, in particular, no-take MPAs (where all forms of fishing or extraction are prohibited), social impacts may include increased congestion in unrestricted areas and a restriction in the choices available to users for safe and accessible fishing locations [19,31,32]. MPAs have the potential to affect the wellbeing of individuals and groups who value their use of marine environment as integral to their 'way of life' and social identity [33][34][35][36]. MPAs may also cause equity issues within local communities if some stakeholder groups, such as fishers, feel marginalised in favour of other groups, such as divers and other tourism operators [17].…”

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Methods of social assessment in Marine Protected Area planning: Is public participation enough?

2012

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Addressing social and economic considerations is crucial to the success of Marine Protected Area (MPA) planning and management. Ineffective social assessment can alienate local communities and undermine the success of existing and future MPAs. The success of methods currently used to incorporate social and economic considerations into MPA planning, however, is rarely critiqued. Three Australian MPA planning processes covering three states and incorporating federal and state jurisdictions are reviewed in order to determine how potential social impacts were assessed and considered. These case studies indicate that Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is underdeveloped in Australian MPA planning. Assessments rely heavily on public participation and economic modelling as surrogates for dedicated SIA and are commonly followed by attitudinal surveys to gauge public opinion on the MPA after its establishment. The emergence of issues around public perception of the value of MPAs indicates the failure of some of these proposals to adequately consider social factors in planning and management. This perception may have potential implications for the long term success of individual MPAs. It may also compromise Australia's ability to meet commitments for MPA targets, made under a range of international agreements, to gazette at least 10% of all its marine habitats as MPAs. Indeed, this is demonstrated in two of the three case studies where social and economic arguments against MPAs have been used to delay or block the future expansion of the MPA network.

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Ban on commercial fishing in the estuarine waters of New South Wales, Australia: Community consultation and social impacts

Cited by 35 publications

References 6 publications

Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: evidence from Somalia

Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: evidence from Somalia

Risk Management and Risk Avoidance in Agency Decision Making

Methods of social assessment in Marine Protected Area planning: Is public participation enough?

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