List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Stephen P. Depoe and John W. Delicath
Part I. Theorizing and Constructing More Effective Public Participation Processes
1. The Trinity of Voice: The Role of Practical Theory in Planning and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Participatory Processes
Susan L. Senecah
2. A Social Communication Perspective Toward Public Participation: The Case of the Cispus Adaptive Management Area
Amanda C. Graham
3. Competing and Converging Values of Public Participation: A Case Study of Participant Views in Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Cleanup
Jennifer Duffield Hamilton
4. Public Expertise: A Foundation for Citizen Participation in Energy and Environmental Decisions
William J. Kinsella
Part II. Evaluating Mechanisms for Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
5. Decide, Announce, Defend: Turning the NEPA Process into an Advocacy Tool Rather than a Decision-Making Tool
Judith Hendry
6. The Roadless Areas Initiative as National Policy: Is Public Participation an Oxymoron?
Gregg B. Walker
7. Public Participation and (Failed) Legitimation: The Case of Forest Service Rhetorics in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Steve Schwarze
8. Public Involvement, Civic Discovery, and the Formation of Environmental Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the Fernald Citizens Task Force and the Fernald Health Effects Subcommittee
Stephen P. Depoe
9. Public Participation or Stakeholder Frustration: An Analysis of Consensus-Based Participation in the Georgia Ports Authority's Stakeholder Evaluation Group
Caitlin Wills Toker
10. "Free Trade" and the Eclipse of Civil Society: Barriers to Transparency and Public Participation in NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas
J. Robert Cox
Part III. Emergent Participation Practices Among Activist Communities
11. Global Governance and Social Capital: Mapping NGO Capacities in Different Institutional Contexts
Amos Tevelow
12. Toxic Tours: Communicating the "Presence" of Chemical Contamination
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
13. Art and Advocacy: Citizen Participation Through Cultural Activism
John W. Delicath
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index