Citizen Participation in Urban Forests

Analysis of a Consultation Process in the Metropolitan Area of Rouen Normandy

Bibliographic Data

ID22018115
AuthorsCharlotte Birks (Université catholique de l'Ouest), Damien Féménias (0009-0008-3763-0731, Centre d’études des transformations des activités physiques et sportives), Charly Machemehl (0000-0001-7548-495X, Centre d’études des transformations des activités physiques et sportives)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue2
Pages174-185
Publication date2022-05-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v7i2.4997
OpenAlexW4281632275
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

The article examines the results of a “citizen consultation” organised by local public officials through a questionnaire-based consultation approach to the management of urban and peri-urban forests. The study shows how forests are at the same time strong, complex, and ambivalent policy levers in a public consultation process. The article, first of all, specifies the economic context of the case study, namely that of a metropolis in the north of France with a population of 500,000 people. It then presents the methods and the occasionally divergent results of the metropolitan “dialogue” survey (dated 2020, n = 375) on the one hand, and a university survey (dated 2020, n = 774) on the other. The results obtained reveal the challenges, difficulties, and limits of a participatory approach, given the high degree of ambivalence and contrast in the way population groups relate to woodland and the representative/participatory systems. The article highlights the complexity involved in the management of woodlands and their use as part of a political process that is both participatory and sustainable

Ambivalence · Archaeology · Citizen journalism · Environmental planning · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Population · Public consultation · Public participation · Regional science · Sociology · Woodland · African Botany and Ecology Studies · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · French Urban and Social Studies · Psychology · Public Administration · Ecology

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