In 2022 and 2023, Foncsi carried out a strategic analysis of “Citizen participatory dynamics and industrial safety”. 
This new publication presents the results of the academic seminar on this strategic analysis, held in May 2023 with a dozen international experts.

 

Consult and download this book:
Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks

What's it all about?

This open access book contributes to the increasing trend toward greater public participation in decision-making in many areas of public life, particularly in the field of the environment and sustainable development. It addresses the continuing sensitivities surround the impact of hazardous industrial activities.


Through the viewpoints of experts from various disciplines, industrial sectors, and countries, it offers an opportunity to gain a better grasp of the multiplicity and complexity of participatory processes and to understand their expected benefits, their drawbacks, and potential pitfalls. The work supports the making of better-informed decisions, especially by industrial or regulatory actors, to engage or not with public participation.

 

Articles and authors

This academic book consists of 11 chapters, based on presentations by international experts invited to the academic seminar.

 

  • “The Push Toward Public Participation in the Governance of Industrial Safety Risks”, by Corinne Bieder &Hervé Laroche (Foncsi, France)
  • “Public Participation and the Democratic Imaginaries”, by Pierre-Benoit Joly (Inrae, France) & Corinne Bieder (Foncsi, France)
  • “Decision Making in Projects Involving Public Participation”, by Hervé Laroche (Foncsi, France)
  • “The Governance of Industrial and Community Risk”, by Jacob Kringen (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway)
  • “Broadening the Scope of Industrial Risk Assessment and Management”, by Julien Rebotier (CNRS, France)
  • “The TotalEnergies Approach to Stakeholder Engagement”, by Irene Roca Ortiz (TotalEnergies, France)
  • “Social Acceptability of Industrial Risk”, by Corinne Gendron et Stéphanie Yates (UQAM, Canada), Alice Friser (UQO, Canada) & Marie-Luc Arpin (Sherbrooke University, Canada)
  • “Public Participation in the Management of Risk from Industrial Facilities”, byThomas Webler (Social and Environmental Research Institute, USA)
  • “Participatory Processes for Industrial Risk Management”, by Anna Scolobig (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • “Engaging Citizens in Dialogue on Technoscience”, by Phil Macnaghten (Wageningen University, Pays-Bas)
  • “Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?”, by Jean Pariès (Foncsi, France)

 

This is the 16th book Foncsi has published with Springer, in its “SpringerBriefs in Safety Management” series.
 

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