Inextricably Intertwined, Environmental Mangement and the Public, The Georgetown International Law Review

This paper advances a basic argument: environmental public participation rights are necessary to industrial development, and deliberate, effective, and well-reasoned economic growth can occur only after involvement of critical host community stakeholders. Such rights should not be ignored by industry seeking to invest in these communities. Industry should consider environmental public participation rights as a means of mitigating risk and allocating cost of development among a number of stakeholders.  Read the paper. 17 Geo. Int’l Envtl. L. Rev. 939 (2005)