Public Meetings About Local Waste Management Problems: Comparing Participants to Nonparticipants

摘要

One of the more traditional ways to involve citi- znes in environmental management in the United States is to hold a public meeting. Yet public meetings are also frequently criticized for stereotypical weaknesses, including a concern that citizens who attend public meetings do not accurately represent citizens who do not attend. To examine this con- cern in the content of local waste management problems, this study investigates whether citizens who attend public meet- ings differ from citizens who do not attend meetings.