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Public participation and environmental impact assessment in Romania: The case of Ro¿ia Montan¿. A call for the institutionalisation of public participation.

Esko, Susan A.
Publication Date
2013-12-06
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Perrigo, Sarah
Gallagher, Tom G.P.
Keywords
Public participation, Consultation, Romania, Environmental impact, Assessment, Democracy, Bureaucracy, Ro¿ia Montan¿
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University of Bradford
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Department of Peace Studies
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2011
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In this thesis I develop a critical theory of public participation and deliberation in post-communist Romania. Primarily, this theory is developed from a critical assessment of two intermediate-level Romanian institutions: the deliberative system that has formed to debate the authorisation of a proposed gold mining project in Ro¿ia Montan¿, Romania and the legitimacy claims of the series of hybrid forums that were convened as part of that project¿s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The hybrid forum legitimacy claims were assessed based on a standard of hybrid forum legitimacy developed in this thesis from deliberative democracy theory and practice. Grounded in new institutionalism theory, this thesis describes the historical and contemporary socio-economic conditions that have shaped Romanian public participation and deliberation.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5756
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PhD
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