Public participation in the Environmental Assessment and Review Process : the role of intervenor funding
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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degree campus: UBCV
creator: Cooper, Judith Patricia
issued: 2010-09-09T19:11:01Z
issued: 1988
related degree: Master of Science in Planning - MSc (Plan)
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis examines the opportunities for public participation in the federal Environmental Assessment and Review Process (EARP) and the influence of intervenor funding on that input; the application of EARP to Military Flying Activites in Labrador and Quebec is used as a case study. The analytical approach is critical and based on a public interest perspective. Five research questions are posed based on an interpretation of four normative objectives for the EAR Process and identification of several areas of EARP that restrict public access to decision making. The research questions ask to what extent intervenor funding would increase overall participation in the Process; whether funding would affect the ability of intervenors to be involved in stages of the Process where public input is limited; whether intervenor funding would ensure that the values and interests of public groups are more actively considered at each stage of the Process; how intervenor funding affects the quality and quantity of public input to the Process; and how the administration of the funding program affects public participation in the case study. Questionnaires were developed from these questions and three participant groups in the case study were interviewed. The results of these interviews are summarized and evaluated against the normative objectives and a set of six evaluative criteria - representativeness, educational, accountability, fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency. The criteria are developed from a theoretical rationale for financially supported public participation in EARP. The first general conclusion of this research is that the EAR Process is fundamentally flawed. Notwithstanding incremental reforms like intervenor funding, the assumptions of Environmental Impact Assessment and the structure of EARP treat project assessment as a project specific venture amenable to prediction and technical analysis. In fact is is inseparable from a value-laden and political development pl…
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note: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND REVIEW PROCESS: THE ROLE OF INTERVENOR FUNDING By JUDITH PATRICIA COOPER B.Sc, The University of Toronto, 1982 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (School of Community and Regional Planning) We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standard William E. Rees, Associate Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning Julia Gardner, Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, and Researcher, Westwater Research Institute THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA May, 1988 ... (c) Judith Patricia Cooper, 1988 In p r e s e n t i n g this thesis in part ia l f u l f i lmen t o f t h e requ i remen ts fo r an a d v a n c e d d e g r e e at t h e Univers i ty o f Bri t ish C o l u m b i a , I agree that t h e Library shall m a k e it f ree ly avai lable fo r re fe rence and s tudy . I f u r the r agree that permiss ion fo r ex tens ive c o p y i n g o f th is thesis fo r scholar ly p u r p o s e s may b e g r a n t e d b y the h e a d o f m y d e p a r t m e n t o r b y his o r her representa t ives . It is u n d e r s t o o d that c o p y i n g o r pub l i ca t i on o f th is thesis f o r f inancia l ga in shall n o t b e a l l o w e d w i t h o u t m y w r i t t e n pe rm iss ion . D e p a r t m e n t o f S c h o o l o f C o m m u n i t y - a n d R e g i o n a l P l a n n i n g T h e Un ivers i ty o f Brit ish C o l u m b i a 1956 M a i n M a l l Vancouve r , Canada V 6 T 1Y3 D a t e Mav 13. 1988 DE-6G/81) ii ABSTRACT This thesis examines the opportunities for public participation in the federal Environmental Assessment and Review Process (EARP) and the influence of intervenor funding on that input; the application of EARP to Military Flying Activites in Labrador and Quebec is used as a case study. The analytical approach is critical and based on a public interest perspective. Five research que…
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language: eng
degree discipline: Planning
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identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28344