Seth Tuler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3470088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Tuler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuler |
| SIGNATURE | TULER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social and Environmental Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3930-1107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Community civic capacities for meaningful engagement in siting infrastructure for the energy transition
To address the driving forces of climate change and to ensure society has reliable and plentiful energy, considerable amounts of new energy infrastructure will need to be built in scores of communities over the near future. Democratic societies give communities considerable authority, influence, and autonomy on land-use decisions and regulatory policy making. Involving community members and stakeholders in decision making about facility siting an…
The challenge of community acceptance of small nuclear reactors
Nuclear power is being promoted as a safe and reliable energy source that can contribute to the decarbonization goals of nations and states. A great deal of recent attention is on the role of small modular reactors and micro-reactors for providing heat and electricity. To be impactful, many hundreds of these small capacity reactors would have to be deployed rapidly. Consequently, hundreds of communities in a wide variety of settings would need to…
Controversy and consensus in the design of a consent-based siting process for radioactive waste
Assessment of adaptation, policy, and capacity building outcomes from 14 processes
Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent-based siting for energy infrastructure
We highlight issues relevant to a consent-based siting process for energy facilities with the intent to inform government officials, planners, and stakeholders on potential critical issues and challenges associated with such a process. In this paper we trace the history and meaning of “consent” in the academic literature associated with medical ethics, research ethics, international development, and political theory. We identify key themes and ch…
Storying Climate Change in Himachal Pradesh, India
Stories of climate change impact underreports the voices of ordinary people emerging with firsthand experience of living closest to the land, even though there are myriad justifications for this approach. We aimed to record personal accounts of perceptions and implications of climate change in rural villages in Himachal Pradesh, India. We applied a modified ethnographic strategy informed by techniques for eliciting life histories from residents w…
Stormwater Management in a Time of Climate Change
Numerous decision support tools have been developed to assist stormwater managers to understand future scenarios and devise management strategies. This paper presents one such tool, the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process, and reports on experiences from its deployment in 10 coastal communities on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. VCAPS helps to elucidate local complexities, couplings, and contextual nuance …
Using Q Method for the Formative Evaluation of Public Participation Processes
Public participation can benefit from formative evaluation to learn from experience and recommend improvements to the participation process as it is happening. Q method is a promising tool for conducting formative evaluations. It specifies the different perspectives held by participants about the process and clarifies the sources of their agreement and disagreement. Further advantages are that the technique relies on a minimal number of research …
Four Perspectives on Public Participation Process in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
Knowing how people think about public participation processes and knowing what people want from these processes is essential to crafting a legitimate and effective process and delivering a program that is widely viewed as meaningful and successful. This article reports on research to investigate the nature of diversity among participants' perceptions of what is the most appropriate public participation process for environmental assessment and dec…
Introduction to the Special Edition
Competing perspectives on public involvement
Public involvement is increasingly emphasized as part of government agencies' responses to environmental health hazards, including risk characterization and risk communication. For example, there is a growing body of literature on health and risk communication proposing best practices and evaluating processes, yet there has been little attention to the ways that preferences for process features and criteria for evaluating success may vary among s…
Participation by Local Governmental Officials in Watershed Management Planning
This article reports on a study that explores what factors influence the decisions of New England local governmental officials (LGOs) to participate (or not) in regional collaborative environmental policymaking on watershed management planning. Q methodology was used to find coherent narratives that captured basic perspectives LGOs took toward the opportunity to participate in a watershed management planning process. Five perspectives emerged fro…
Unlocking the Puzzle of Public Participation
Public participation is well known for its practitioner insights and wealth of case reports. This knowledge is essential and has been well employed. Likewise, the theoretical literature on public participation is growing rapidly. The need for better conceptual and theoretical understandings of public participation has become clear. Public participation theories have not received great attention, and few have been proposed or tested. Yet theory of…
What Is a Good Public Participation Process? Five Perspectives from the Public
Forms of talk in policy dialogue
Many environmental and risk issues require decisions or agreements among competing stakeholders who argue, deliberate, and discuss about a variety of issues, including facts, values, substance, and process. Often such decisions or agreements remain elusive because the process of decision making becomes adversarial. Yet, while policy deliberations can be instrumental in character, they have also been viewed as potentially enabling new understandin…
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
This article reports progress on developing a theory of public participation that may prove useful to administrative bodies. The authors review a theory of public participation based on Habermas's theory of communicative action and then reconsider the theory in light of a case study. Participants of a forest policy-making process reported their perceptions of a good process, and the authors used grounded theory methodology to induce criteria of g…
Voices from the Forest
It is now widely accepted that members of the public should be involved in environmental decision-making. Many researchers have attempted to define process and outcome principles for "good" public participation. The emphasis of this study is on the process. We asked participants in a forest policymaking process about their ideas of "good" process. We used an approach based on the qualitative method of grounded theory to inductively identify princ…
Integrating Technical Analysis With Deliberation in Regional Watershed Management Planning
This paper suggests that applications of watershed management planning would benefit from a theoretical consideration of the policymaking process. A conceptual schema from the field of risk analysis proposes that policymaking be conceived of as a combination of two types of activities: analysis and deliberation. We argue that these concepts are relevant to watershed management planning and we illustrate how a process successfully might integrate …
Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks
Conflicts regarding the siting of hazardous facilities in the U.S. have often led to an impasse due to numerous problems, particularly including social distrust. To address this situation, this article proposes a multidimensional conception of trust, including cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects, and involving themes of expectations about others, subjective perceptions of situations, and awareness of taking risks. Four key dimensions of …
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
This article reports progress on developing a theory of public participation that may prove useful to administrative bodies. The authors review a theory of public participation based on Habermas's theory of communicative action and then reconsider the theory in light of a case study. Participants of a forest policy-making process reported their perceptions of a good process, and the authors used grounded theory methodology to induce criteria of g…
Four Perspectives on Public Participation Process in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
Knowing how people think about public participation processes and knowing what people want from these processes is essential to crafting a legitimate and effective process and delivering a program that is widely viewed as meaningful and successful. This article reports on research to investigate the nature of diversity among participants' perceptions of what is the most appropriate public participation process for environmental assessment and dec…
Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks
Conflicts regarding the siting of hazardous facilities in the U.S. have often led to an impasse due to numerous problems, particularly including social distrust. To address this situation, this article proposes a multidimensional conception of trust, including cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects, and involving themes of expectations about others, subjective perceptions of situations, and awareness of taking risks. Four key dimensions of …
Voices from the Forest
It is now widely accepted that members of the public should be involved in environmental decision-making. Many researchers have attempted to define process and outcome principles for "good" public participation. The emphasis of this study is on the process. We asked participants in a forest policymaking process about their ideas of "good" process. We used an approach based on the qualitative method of grounded theory to inductively identify princ…
Participation by Local Governmental Officials in Watershed Management Planning
This article reports on a study that explores what factors influence the decisions of New England local governmental officials (LGOs) to participate (or not) in regional collaborative environmental policymaking on watershed management planning. Q methodology was used to find coherent narratives that captured basic perspectives LGOs took toward the opportunity to participate in a watershed management planning process. Five perspectives emerged fro…
Using Q Method for the Formative Evaluation of Public Participation Processes
Public participation can benefit from formative evaluation to learn from experience and recommend improvements to the participation process as it is happening. Q method is a promising tool for conducting formative evaluations. It specifies the different perspectives held by participants about the process and clarifies the sources of their agreement and disagreement. Further advantages are that the technique relies on a minimal number of research …
Integrating Technical Analysis With Deliberation in Regional Watershed Management Planning
This paper suggests that applications of watershed management planning would benefit from a theoretical consideration of the policymaking process. A conceptual schema from the field of risk analysis proposes that policymaking be conceived of as a combination of two types of activities: analysis and deliberation. We argue that these concepts are relevant to watershed management planning and we illustrate how a process successfully might integrate …
Controversy and consensus in the design of a consent-based siting process for radioactive waste
Assessment of adaptation, policy, and capacity building outcomes from 14 processes
Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent-based siting for energy infrastructure
We highlight issues relevant to a consent-based siting process for energy facilities with the intent to inform government officials, planners, and stakeholders on potential critical issues and challenges associated with such a process. In this paper we trace the history and meaning of “consent” in the academic literature associated with medical ethics, research ethics, international development, and political theory. We identify key themes and ch…
Introduction to the Special Edition
Forms of talk in policy dialogue
Many environmental and risk issues require decisions or agreements among competing stakeholders who argue, deliberate, and discuss about a variety of issues, including facts, values, substance, and process. Often such decisions or agreements remain elusive because the process of decision making becomes adversarial. Yet, while policy deliberations can be instrumental in character, they have also been viewed as potentially enabling new understandin…
Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks
Conflicts regarding the siting of hazardous facilities in the U.S. have often led to an impasse due to numerous problems, particularly including social distrust. To address this situation, this article proposes a multidimensional conception of trust, including cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects, and involving themes of expectations about others, subjective perceptions of situations, and awareness of taking risks. Four key dimensions of …
Voices from the Forest
It is now widely accepted that members of the public should be involved in environmental decision-making. Many researchers have attempted to define process and outcome principles for "good" public participation. The emphasis of this study is on the process. We asked participants in a forest policymaking process about their ideas of "good" process. We used an approach based on the qualitative method of grounded theory to inductively identify princ…
Integrating Technical Analysis With Deliberation in Regional Watershed Management Planning
This paper suggests that applications of watershed management planning would benefit from a theoretical consideration of the policymaking process. A conceptual schema from the field of risk analysis proposes that policymaking be conceived of as a combination of two types of activities: analysis and deliberation. We argue that these concepts are relevant to watershed management planning and we illustrate how a process successfully might integrate …
Forms of talk in policy dialogue
Many environmental and risk issues require decisions or agreements among competing stakeholders who argue, deliberate, and discuss about a variety of issues, including facts, values, substance, and process. Often such decisions or agreements remain elusive because the process of decision making becomes adversarial. Yet, while policy deliberations can be instrumental in character, they have also been viewed as potentially enabling new understandin…
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
This article reports progress on developing a theory of public participation that may prove useful to administrative bodies. The authors review a theory of public participation based on Habermas's theory of communicative action and then reconsider the theory in light of a case study. Participants of a forest policy-making process reported their perceptions of a good process, and the authors used grounded theory methodology to induce criteria of g…
What Is a Good Public Participation Process? Five Perspectives from the Public
Unlocking the Puzzle of Public Participation
Public participation is well known for its practitioner insights and wealth of case reports. This knowledge is essential and has been well employed. Likewise, the theoretical literature on public participation is growing rapidly. The need for better conceptual and theoretical understandings of public participation has become clear. Public participation theories have not received great attention, and few have been proposed or tested. Yet theory of…
Participation by Local Governmental Officials in Watershed Management Planning
This article reports on a study that explores what factors influence the decisions of New England local governmental officials (LGOs) to participate (or not) in regional collaborative environmental policymaking on watershed management planning. Q methodology was used to find coherent narratives that captured basic perspectives LGOs took toward the opportunity to participate in a watershed management planning process. Five perspectives emerged fro…
Competing perspectives on public involvement
Public involvement is increasingly emphasized as part of government agencies' responses to environmental health hazards, including risk characterization and risk communication. For example, there is a growing body of literature on health and risk communication proposing best practices and evaluating processes, yet there has been little attention to the ways that preferences for process features and criteria for evaluating success may vary among s…
Four Perspectives on Public Participation Process in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
Knowing how people think about public participation processes and knowing what people want from these processes is essential to crafting a legitimate and effective process and delivering a program that is widely viewed as meaningful and successful. This article reports on research to investigate the nature of diversity among participants' perceptions of what is the most appropriate public participation process for environmental assessment and dec…
Introduction to the Special Edition
Using Q Method for the Formative Evaluation of Public Participation Processes
Public participation can benefit from formative evaluation to learn from experience and recommend improvements to the participation process as it is happening. Q method is a promising tool for conducting formative evaluations. It specifies the different perspectives held by participants about the process and clarifies the sources of their agreement and disagreement. Further advantages are that the technique relies on a minimal number of research …
Stormwater Management in a Time of Climate Change
Numerous decision support tools have been developed to assist stormwater managers to understand future scenarios and devise management strategies. This paper presents one such tool, the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process, and reports on experiences from its deployment in 10 coastal communities on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. VCAPS helps to elucidate local complexities, couplings, and contextual nuance …
Storying Climate Change in Himachal Pradesh, India
Stories of climate change impact underreports the voices of ordinary people emerging with firsthand experience of living closest to the land, even though there are myriad justifications for this approach. We aimed to record personal accounts of perceptions and implications of climate change in rural villages in Himachal Pradesh, India. We applied a modified ethnographic strategy informed by techniques for eliciting life histories from residents w…
Assessment of adaptation, policy, and capacity building outcomes from 14 processes
Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent-based siting for energy infrastructure
We highlight issues relevant to a consent-based siting process for energy facilities with the intent to inform government officials, planners, and stakeholders on potential critical issues and challenges associated with such a process. In this paper we trace the history and meaning of “consent” in the academic literature associated with medical ethics, research ethics, international development, and political theory. We identify key themes and ch…
Controversy and consensus in the design of a consent-based siting process for radioactive waste
The challenge of community acceptance of small nuclear reactors
Nuclear power is being promoted as a safe and reliable energy source that can contribute to the decarbonization goals of nations and states. A great deal of recent attention is on the role of small modular reactors and micro-reactors for providing heat and electricity. To be impactful, many hundreds of these small capacity reactors would have to be deployed rapidly. Consequently, hundreds of communities in a wide variety of settings would need to…
Community civic capacities for meaningful engagement in siting infrastructure for the energy transition
To address the driving forces of climate change and to ensure society has reliable and plentiful energy, considerable amounts of new energy infrastructure will need to be built in scores of communities over the near future. Democratic societies give communities considerable authority, influence, and autonomy on land-use decisions and regulatory policy making. Involving community members and stakeholders in decision making about facility siting an…
Political science (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Process (computing (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Environmental planning (6 works)