New Agendas for Appraisal: Reflections on Theory, Practice, and Research:

摘要: Appraisal—defined here to include a variety of ex ante techniques and procedures that seek predict evaluate the consequences certain human actions—has been afforded an increasingly important role in environmental policy. We argue this paper, however, both nature appraisal its political process have inadequately conceptualised. Exploring literature has tended polarise ‘technical’ ‘deliberative’ models, we identify need for sensitive selection combination approaches, taking account object objective particular contexts. suggest (by design or by default) may be providing spaces dialogue learning making policies decisions. A better understanding such processes requires further research, particularly well-designed longitudinal work involving retrospective ‘real time’ studies practice.