Public Involvement in Environmental Governance: Review of Benin's Experiences

Junior Bloh Nignilo Adohinzin; Ling Xu; Shu Shen Zhang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.798-799.1162

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Public Involvement in Environmental Governance: Review of Benin's Experiences

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Nowadays public participation is recognized as an integral procedure to achieving sustainable development as well as a good method of environmental governance. This study aimed to improve the quality of public participation in the field of environmental governance. To this end, it used Benin republic as a case study to provide an analytical review of two public participation approaches developed in Republic of Benin for environmental management. Results highlighted some keys limitation of each of those approaches. The study concludes with recommendations to improve the quality of public participation application in Benin.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 798-799)

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Junior Bloh Nignilo Adohinzin, Ling Xu, Shu Shen Zhang

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Benin, Governance, Public Participation, Stakeholder

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