Sharing the Challenge: A Guide for Community-Based

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Environmental Planning - Volume I

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ORGANIZATION . iii

PREFACE v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . xiv

PART 1 — THE MULTISTAKEHOLDER APPROACH. 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

1.0 INTRODUCING THE GUIDE 5

2.0 AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACAP PLANNING PROCESS 11

3.0 ORGANIZING ACAP’S MULTISTAKEHOLDER COMMITTEE 25

4.0 CONVENING THE FIRST FORMAL MEETING OF THE

STAKEHOLDERGROUP 35

APPENDIX 1.1 – TERMSOFREFERENCE . 39

APPENDIX 1.2 – SAMPLELETTEROFUNDERSTANDING 43

APPENDIX 1.3 – NEWSRELEASE . 47

APPENDIX 1.4 – NOTES ON PUBLIC CONSULTATION AND THE

MULTISTAKEHOLDERPROCESS . 51

PART 2 — FROM OBJECTIVES TO EVALUATION 61

2A BUILDING A VISION: THE COMMUNITY DECIDES 63

TABLE OF CONTENTS 65

1.0 INTRODUCTION 67

2.0 THE COMMUNITY VISION 69

3.0 NOW THAT YOU HAVE A VISION 75

2B A PRIMER ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT . 77

TABLE OF CONTENTS 79

1.0 GETTING STARTED 81

2.0 GAINING CONFIDENCE—WEIGHING THE IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA 83

3.0 LET’S GET ORGANIZED 89

4.0 PERFORMING AN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT 95

5.0 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 99

APPENDIX — BLANK FORMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT 101

2C DEVELOPING AN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT . 105

USING LOTUS AGENDA

TABLE OF CONTENTS 107

1.0 INTRODUCTION 109

Organization

2.0 USING LOTUS AGENDA IN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT . 113

3.0 DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OPERATION AND HARDWARE 127

PART 3 — TOUGH CHOICES: SELECTING YOUR SOLUTIONS . 129

TABLE OF CONTENTS 131

1.0 INTRODUCTION 133

2.0 PLANNING YOUR EVALUATION METHOD 139

3.0 GETTING READY FOR EVALUATION . 145

4.0 EVALUATING THE OPTIONS . 167

5.0 THENEXTSTEPS . 171

6.0 LITERATURE . 175

PART 4 — A LASTING RECORD: PUTTING YOUR PLAN IN PRINT 179

TABLE OF CONTENTS 181

1.0 INTRODUCTION 183

2.0 OF COURSE I CAN WRITE THIS! . 187

3.0 PLANNING THE PLAN. 191

4.0 ABOUT WRITING . 203

5.0 THE FINAL PRODUCT 207

6.0 CONCLUSION 213

APPENDIX–EXAMPLES OF TABLES AND CHARTS 215

CONCLUSION . 221

GLOSSARY. 223