Dialectic approach and relation with public policy

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The Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities (NRMNC) is a collaborative academic, community-based and tribal project which aimed at involving native American people exposed to radiation caused by the U.S. weapon testing in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The project promoted the participation of stakeholders through technical and educational methodologies about radiation hazards and was induced in 1994 by an Executive Order for Environmental Justice, signed by President Clinton.

Quigley et al., 2000 [21]

In a context of urban social inequities in Northern Ireland a participatory rapid appraisal was proceeded comprising representatives of local community employing tools like focus groups and questionnaire. The initiative lead to a dialogue between social actors and health practitioners around the primary health care policy and revealed some social and environmental factors which were ignored before.

Lazenbatt et al., 2001 [22]

The paper explores how the European Union’s wide regulation of chemicals, the REACH system, can be applied to the Austrian context considering the complexity and uncertainties under the cost-benefit analysis. This analysis is multifactorial and its outcomes can subsidize an important dialogue with stakeholders (producer, consumers, employees and policy-makers) who thus will have means to decide what chemicals should be employed or banished even under a precautionary principle.

Getzner, 2008 [23]

The Healthy Alberta Communities is a community-university-government partnership held in Canada which involves local representatives in a participatory approach by studying and classifying environment by types making possible that local community stakeholders identify environmental determinants of chronic diseases and obesity, also offering opportunities to influence values, change environments and create a culture supportive of healthy living.

Raine et al., 2010 [24]

This paper reveals multiple factors that hinder a multilevel governance system under the case of the European directives for safe drinking water. The focus of the study is to explain why some parts of Hungary continue to deliver drinking water that exceeds the directives, considering that there are multiple layers of governance between EU’s legislation and the municipalities, and each of them must have a role to play in translating legislation into action.

Leventon & Antypas, 2012 [25]