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What is Public Participation

Chapter 13
Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
The process by which the interested or affected public are involved in planning decision making.
Published in Chapter:
Visualisation and Auralisation for Perception-Driven Decision Supports in Planning: A Comparative Review
Like Jiang (University of Surrey, UK)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch013
Abstract
Visualisation and auralisation are among the essential technologies for perception-driven decision support in landscape planning and soundscape planning, respectively. By making proposed developments and environmental changes visible and audible, they allow decision-makings based on perceptual experience, providing a “common language” that all the stakeholders are capable of using to communicate and to exchange ideas. While they share common function and criteria when used for decision support in planning, they are not in parallel developments and have been approached differently regarding their applications. This chapter comparatively reviews the developments and applications of visualisation and auralisation for perception-driven decision support in planning, aiming to provide technological and methodological insights into the two interconnected yet somewhat independent subjects. This led to indications for new developments and optimized applications in the near future. The chapter addresses three issues: validity, contents to present, and ways to present.
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Chapter 21
ICT: A Magic Wand for Social Change in Rural India
Public participation is a political principle or practice, and may also be recognized as a right (right to public participation). Public participation may be regarded as a way of empowerment and as vital part of the democratic governance. Public participation is marked by debates and discussion along with social inclusion. Generally public participation seeks and facilitates the involvement of those potentially affected by or interested in a decision. The principle of public participation holds that those who are affected by a decision have a right to be involved in the decision-making process. It initiates and enhances the knowledge sharing process within a community.
Published in Chapter: ICT: A Magic Wand for Social Change in Rural India; From: Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society
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Portals as a Tool for Public Participation in Urban Planning
Participation of the people in the decision-making process of politics and public administration. Different forms of participation can be distinguished from non-participation through informing, consulting and partnerships to citizen control.
Published in Chapter: Portals as a Tool for Public Participation in Urban Planning; From: Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring
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The Role of Collaboration to Encourage Civic Engagement through the Arts: The Blurring of the Government and Nonprofit Sectors
Sometimes referred to as stakeholder engagement, public participation is a political process that empowers relevant communities through involvement in the decision-making process. Specifically it means involving in the process those who are affected by a decision. See Arnstein.
Published in Chapter: The Role of Collaboration to Encourage Civic Engagement through the Arts: The Blurring of the Government and Nonprofit Sectors; From: Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art
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An ePlanning Case Study in Stuttgart Using OPPA 3D
“the means by which members of the community are able to take part in the shaping of policies and plans that will affect the environment in which they live” [Whittick, 1974]
Published in Chapter: An ePlanning Case Study in Stuttgart Using OPPA 3D; From: Handbook of Research on Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies
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Participatory Mapping, E-Participation, and E-Governance: Applications in Environmental Policy
Engagement of the general public in policy-making activities. It includes activities such as sharing of government information, seeking comments on issues and policies, and using public inputs in decision making.
Published in Chapter: Participatory Mapping, E-Participation, and E-Governance: Applications in Environmental Policy; From: Leveraging Digital Innovation for Governance, Public Administration, and Citizen Services: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Listening to the Ground: Key Indicators of e-Participation in Government for Africa
Communication process that informs, consults and involves the citizens in Government’s activities of decision and law and policy making.
Published in Chapter: Listening to the Ground: Key Indicators of e-Participation in Government for Africa; From: Handbook of Research on E-Government in Emerging Economies: Adoption, E-Participation, and Legal Frameworks
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Public Participation in E-Government: Some Questions about Social Inclusion in the Singapore Model
The belief that those who are effected by a decision have a right to be involved in the decision making process.
Published in Chapter: Public Participation in E-Government: Some Questions about Social Inclusion in the Singapore Model; From: Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring
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