Public Participation in the Development Process

3. During this time, the Department of Urban Planning Housing decided on the importance of public participation in the development process, the preparation of new changes in the law (improvement of the role of genetic resources and abolition of sustainable development), and structured democratic We tried trials of using dialogue design. project

The motto is "I will not plan, I will play the city." Urban playing, integrating city games, digital polls,

For countries where representative democracy is not mature, it is important to develop the mechanism of public participation in the legislative process, which is worth studying. In China, the public participation law through the stage of disclosure and comment procedure is routinized, the "Environment Protection Law" was revised from 2012, and a new mechanism including the process of two-stage disclosure and comment was formed. Expansion of public participation will benefit environmental democracy by incorporating environmental insights and benefits into environmental law, balancing economic and environmental interests, increasing public participation in law enforcement agencies You can bring. In order to fully enjoy the benefits of citizen participation, China needs to take short-term and long-term measures to solve this problem.

Citizen participation in China's environmental law: Pursuing better environmental democracy

Public participation in environmental management is important for building a sound environmental governance system. However, public participation in China is not institutionalized, and the role of the public in environmental management is limited. Chinese policy makers and researchers are currently faced with a dilemma and they have to decide how to make the public fully and effectively involved. The aim of this paper is to provide an innovative approach to effectively bring in citizens and increase participation in China's environmental management. In this paper, first we will outline the present situation of environmental management in China and citizen participation. Based on Chinese political social culture - legal development, the Environment Community Advisory Group (ECCG) was developed to be an innovative tool to attract members of the community. A preliminary study of ECCG was conducted in Yapu village in Changzhou city, Jiangsu province.

This initiative undertakes a comprehensive desktop survey, initiates a pilot project including citizen participation in the four cities, identifies important opportunities and drawbacks of citizen participation in China's environment, promotes environmental public participation We identified the next step to do. In the Environmental Impact Assessment Law of 2002, participation of the general public was mentioned for the first time. Since then, it has become a general principle stipulated by a series of laws, regulations and regulations at the national level. For a brief list of major domestic regulations that form the legal framework of public participation in the Chinese environment, please refer to the following.