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 | | As Dewitt John (1994) has argued in his important book on this topic, civic environmentalism makes sense as a complement, not a substitute, to regulation, and a strong federal role is often required to trigger civic approaches. |
 | | In an important survey of a broad range of programs, the attitude of administrators to citizen participation proved to be the most important factor determining success, and not the particular designs and techniques utilized (Berry, Portney, Bablitch and Mahoney 1984). |
 | | Some forest managers facilitated the development of citizen groups where none existed, generated lists of contacts, and laid some of the essential foundations for the kind of town meeting civic culture that was more common in the national and state forests of the Northeast. |
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