Public participation in analytic-deliberative decision making: Evaluating a large-group online field experiment

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 561-586

  Nyerges, Timothy ^a   Aguirre, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic deliberative; Decision making; Deliberation; Ppgis; Public participation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GIS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; VISUALIZATION;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

VITIS;

EID: 79956203086     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.563669     Document Type: Article

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