The quality of stakeholder-based decisions
The quality of stakeholder-based decisions
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DOI：
10.1111/0272-4332.00065
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发表时间：
2002-08-01
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Beierle, TC
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作者：
Beierle, TC
在环境决策中越来越多地使用利益攸关方程序，这引起了人们对这些程序所产生的决策质量的关注。一些人声称，利益攸关方没有充分利用科学信息和分析，而且太愿意为了政治上的权宜之计而牺牲技术质量。本文通过案例研究记录来检查基于利益相关者流程的决策质量。这项分析的数据来自“案例调查”，研究人员对239个已发表的关于利益相关者参与环境决策的案例研究的信息进行了编码。这些案例反映了各级政府环境和自然资源机构开展的各种规划、管理和实施活动。总体而言，案例研究记录表明，利益相关者过程导致低质量决策的问题不应引起太多关注。大多数案件都有证据表明，利益攸关方改善了现状的决策；增加了新的信息、想法和分析；以及有足够的机会获得技术和科学资源。事实上，数据表明，更密集的利益相关者过程--正是那些最近引起关注的过程--更有可能产生更高质量的决策。
The increased use of stakeholder processes in environmental decision making has raised concerns about the quality of decisions these processes produce. Some claim that stakeholders make inadequate use of scientific information and analysis and are all too ready to sacrifice technical quality for political expediency. This article looks to the case study record to examine the quality of the decisions from stakeholder-based processes. The data for the analysis come from a "case survey," in which researchers coded information from 239 published case studies of stakeholder involvement in environmental decision making. These cases reflect a diversity of planning, management, and implementation activities carried out by environmental and natural resource agencies at many levels of government. Overall, the case-study record suggests that there should be little concern that stakeholder processes are resulting in low-quality decisions. The majority of cases contain evidence of stakeholders improving decisions over the status quo; adding new information, ideas, and analysis; and having adequate access to technical and scientific resources. Indeed, data suggest that it is the more intensive stakeholder processes-precisely those that have aroused recent concern-that are more likely to result in higher-quality decisions.