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Title: | The building of a dam: value conficts in public decision-making | Authors: | Costa, Ana Caldas, José Castro Coelho, Ricardo Ferreiro, Maria de Fátima Gonçalves, Vasco |
Keywords: | Environmental Impact Assessment; Value conficts; Environmental and heritage values; Public decision-making | Issue Date: | 2016 | Publisher: | White Horse Press | Serial title, monograph or event: | Environmental Values | Volume: | 25 | Issue: | 2 | Abstract: | Public decisions concerning large projects with detrimental environmental or heritage impacts involve value conficts which stem from the diverse interests and variety of ways of evaluating the costs and benefts of such projects. They are also framed by institutionalised procedures and practices which favour certain concerns to the detriment of others. This paper aims to contribute towards a better understanding of how these procedures and practices, namely decision support tools such as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), tend to shape public decision-making processes in particular ways. It draws on a study of the public controversy surrounding the Foz Tua dam in Portugal, with a focus on the values upheld by the different parties in the controversy and their interplay in the production of justifcations, specifcally the actors’ positions on values and value conficts and the restrictions posed by institutionalised public decision making procedures on the expression and consideration of certain values. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/35252 | ISSN: | 0963-2719 1752-7015 |
DOI: | 10.3197/096327116X14552114338909 | Rights: | closedAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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