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Increasing concerns for environmental problems have contributed to the general awareness regarding the importance and difficulty of engaging a range of stakeholders in the decision-making process. Those who are involved in making decisions, and affected by the decisions made, from the authorities to the members of public, should be offered an opportunity to engage in informed deliberation, in which views from various perspectives are raised, examined, discussed and taken into consideration before an attempt to reach a consensus is made.
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Nakata, K. (2001). Enabling Public Discourse. In: Terano, T., Ohsawa, Y., Nishida, T., Namatame, A., Tsumoto, S., Washio, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45548-5_8
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