Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters

In many countries, advisory councils are the most common participatory institution in which public administration interacts with civil society around environmental issues. Nevertheless, our knowledge about them is quite limited. The main goal of this article is to show the differences they present w...

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Autores: Alarcón, Pau, Fernández Martínez, José Luis, Font, Joan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12104286
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Palabra clave:Environment policies
Advisory councils
Participatory democracy
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spelling Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it mattersAlarcón, PauFernández Martínez, José LuisFont, JoanEnvironment policiesAdvisory councilsParticipatory democracyIn many countries, advisory councils are the most common participatory institution in which public administration interacts with civil society around environmental issues. Nevertheless, our knowledge about them is quite limited. The main goal of this article is to show the differences they present with advisory councils in other policy areas in three main aspects: who participates, how they work, and which are their outputs. These differences are especially important because they emerge again regarding their participants’ opinions and satisfaction. We adopt a quantitative perspective in order to analyze this reality in Spain, a country where advisory councils are widespread and highly institutionalized at national, regional and local levels. After developing a mapping of 2013 existing advisory councils, we selected a sample of 55 in three policy areas. The data collected included their formal rules, composition, website characteristics and a survey to 501 participants. This set of evidence shows that environmental councils are more poorly designed, and that this is consequential since it is related with more negative opinions among their members and to a larger degree of polarization in their perceptions.This research was funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, grant number CSO2015-66026-R.MDPI202120212020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/47201http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12104286reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésSustainability. 2020 May 23;12(10):4286info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2015-66026-R© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/472012026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
spellingShingle Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
Alarcón, Pau
Environment policies
Advisory councils
Participatory democracy
title_short Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
title_full Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
title_fullStr Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
title_full_unstemmed Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
title_sort Comparing environmental advisory councils: how they work and why it matters
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alarcón, Pau
Fernández Martínez, José Luis
Font, Joan
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Fernández Martínez, José Luis
Font, Joan
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Font, Joan
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Environment policies
Advisory councils
Participatory democracy
topic Environment policies
Advisory councils
Participatory democracy
description In many countries, advisory councils are the most common participatory institution in which public administration interacts with civil society around environmental issues. Nevertheless, our knowledge about them is quite limited. The main goal of this article is to show the differences they present with advisory councils in other policy areas in three main aspects: who participates, how they work, and which are their outputs. These differences are especially important because they emerge again regarding their participants’ opinions and satisfaction. We adopt a quantitative perspective in order to analyze this reality in Spain, a country where advisory councils are widespread and highly institutionalized at national, regional and local levels. After developing a mapping of 2013 existing advisory councils, we selected a sample of 55 in three policy areas. The data collected included their formal rules, composition, website characteristics and a survey to 501 participants. This set of evidence shows that environmental councils are more poorly designed, and that this is consequential since it is related with more negative opinions among their members and to a larger degree of polarization in their perceptions.
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