Citizen Participation in Decision Making: A Challenge for Public Land Managers

Citizen Participation in Decision Making: Is It Worth the Effort?

It is widely argued that increased community participation in government decision making produces many important benefits. Dissent is rare: It is difficult to envision anything but positive outcomes from citizens joining the policy process, collaborating with others and reaching consensus to bring about positive social and environmental change. This article, motivated by contextual problems enc...

DeltaM - a Decision Support System for the Public Participation in Decision Making in Spatial Planning

a study of the relationship between general decision making styles of managers in public organizations

decision making is the essence of managers activities and is of great importance in all of their responsibilities. the main purpose of this study is to investigate general decision making styles of n.i.o.p.d.c ‘s managers in order to study the construction validity of g.d.m.s questionnaire. a collection of 55 managers were selected as statistical sample and rational, intuitive, dependant, spont...

Public Participation in Geocomputation to Support Spatial Decision-making

The extent to which computational modelling has influenced and been a part of decision-making in geography and urban planning has a long and distinguished history, as outlined by Geertman and Stillwell (2009) and Batty and Brail (2008) amongst others. With more recent advances in visualisation techniques and the ability of computers to manipulate, process and analyse increasingly complex and gr...

Assessing Patient Participation in Health Policy Decision-Making in Cyprus

Although the importance of patient participation in the design and evaluation of health programs and services is well-documented, there is scarcity of research with regard to patient association (PA) participation in health policy decision-making processes. To this end, the present study aimed to validate further a previously developed instrument as well as to investigate the degree of PA parti...