Die impak van publieke deelname op groot projekte : die beoogde Johannesburg-Pretoria sneltrein

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Public participation has already been a point of discussion from as early as 1960,with Arnstein's presentation of eight levels of participation. Various advantages anddisadvantages have been published, but theorists agree that the advantages stillovershadow the disadvantages.The United States have started much earlier than South Africa with the studies onpublic participation. It has been realised that public participation forms an integralpart of the formal environmental impact assessment which succeeded the formallegislation of 1996. It is generally accepted that public participation is inseparablefrom the planning process.The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of public participation on theplanning of the Gautrain project, which is the intended rapid rail link betweenJohanesburg and Pretoria. It will be investigated whether the consult firm BohlwekiEnvironmental, that has been appointed to implement the environmental impactassessment of the Gautrain project, complied with the criteria to ensure publicparticipation, and whether the public process made a difference to the planning of theproject.It has been apparent that Bohlweki Environmental used various methods of involvingthe public - inter alia numerous public meetings that have been advertised in thepress and elsewhere. From the public inputs changes have been made to the routeof the train. These changes however, have made other people discontented.The research concludes with the finding that the public participation process of theenvironmental impact assessment had a positive influence on the planning of theproject, even though everyone, due to the extend and the nature of the project, couldnot be satisfied, and that the study has been expensive and time consuming.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University