The lecture provides a high profile forum for communicating the importance and potential for science in environmental decision-making by featuring a renowned expert in the field.

- Who is able to shape environmental decision-making and who is not?

While progress is being made in many areas to increase participation in environmental decision-making, as evidenced in Holley's example above, much work remains to be done.

In environmental decision-making, there are subsets of definitions that are agreed upon to make regulatory and policy decisions.

"This kind of thing hasn't been addressed in a systematic way in environmental decision-making before."

It is also a leader in collaborative process in environmental decision-making, and offers training courses in negotiation, facilitation, and media relations for natural resource professionals.

Mr President, I share the European Commission' s opinion that actual public participation in environmental decision-making is beneficial.

This common position deals with the second pillar of the convention, public participation in environmental decision-making.

Access to HPV chemical information enables the public to participate in environmental decision-making at all levels - federal, state, and local.

It gives Ontario citizens rights to participate in environmental decision-making.