Transparency of environmental decision making: a case study of soil cleanup inside the Hanford 100 area
| Autor: | Timothy L. Nyerges, Christina H. Drew |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Decision support system
Knowledge management Process management Decision engineering business.industry Strategy and Management General Engineering General Social Sciences Transparency (behavior) R-CAST law.invention Record of Decision law Business decision mapping CLARITY Safety Risk Reliability and Quality business Decision analysis |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Risk Research. 7:33-71 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4461 1366-9877 |
| Popis: | Environmental decisions in a democracy should be transparent. Transparency allows all those who are interested in a decision to understand what is being decided and why. Transparency is especially critical for decisions that are intended to protect public health and safety, and that have long‐term consequences. Decisions are recorded through publicly available documents (such as Records of Decision), collectively known as the public record. In this paper the transparency of the public record is examined for a specific decision at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford site. To do this, the concept of transparency is unpacked into seven objectives: clarity, accessibility, integration, logic/rationale, truth/accuracy, openness, and accountability; and a framework for measuring decision transparency is developed. Then a Record of Decision is evaluated based on four of the seven objectives. Throughout, the importance of understanding decision processes and expected outcomes, and the broad values underpinni... |
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