公众参与环境影响评价的意义与作用

公众是环境影响评价主体系统不可缺少的组成部分,这是由环境价值与评价的性质决定的;参与环境管理是宪法和法律赋予公民的民主权利;公众参与是公众实现环境权的一种具体方式。公众参与在环境影响评价中可以提高决策质量和项目的可接受性,提高环境影响评价执行的有效性,有利于将潜在的社会冲突显化并使之得到及时的识别和解决。

Meaning and Effect of Public Participation and Environmental Impact Assessment

The public is an indispensable component of the main system of environmental assessment. This is determined by the environmental value and nature of assessment. To participate in environmental control is a democratic right given the citizen by the constitution and law. The public participation is a concrete form for the public to exercise environmental right. It possesses the following irreplaceable significant roles in the environmental impact assessment - enhancement of policy quality and acceptability of projects, enhancement of the effectiveness of the implementation of environmental impact assessment and availability to make potential social conflicts apparent for timely identification and solution.