Introduction to Public Participation and Outreach in the Energy Sector. Taking Power: Social Dynamics of the Energy Sector. A Symposium on Public Understanding and Participation in the Energy Sector. Held in Cape Town on March 16, 2004

摘要

This paper has two purposes. The first is to draw attention to the multiple ways in which the term public participation is used in development discourse, and to the cross-purpose sorts of discussions that so often ensue. The second is to exhume the functions that this ambiguity has played, and suggest that its usefulness has reached a limit.