Políticas de medio ambiente y participación ciudadana

Mercedes Martínez Iglesias (), Ignacio Lerma Montero () and Ernest Garcia ()
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Mercedes Martínez Iglesias: Universitat de València
Ignacio Lerma Montero: Universitat de València
Ernest Garcia: Universitat de València

CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, 2008, issue 61, pages 179-201

Abstract: Citizen participation is often presented as a necessary part of the process of defining and managing environmental policies. In fact, it is generally regulated in a variety of ways that affect people’s rights to enquire, request and receive information. This article examines three aspects of this issue within the context of Spain: the legal and political limits of citizen participation rights, showing their inferior position in relation to conventional political participation; specific examples of citizen involvement in environmental conflicts, which operates by means that are often outside the regulated channels; and the social functions of requests for regulated participation, which indicate a remarkably contradictory situation. In actual fact, this participation takes very different forms, sometimes going through the channels defined by governments, though often consciously ignoring or questioning them. To ensure a sufficiently comprehensive analytical approach, it should include a sociological view of the conflict.

Keywords: Citizen participation; environmental policies; ecological sociology; socio-ecological conflicts. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q50 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008

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