环境保护中公众参与的若干探讨

在中国，公众参与、辅助政府各项工作已经取得一定的进展，然而公众参与程度和方式有待进一步扩充和完善。由于一些环境问题的潜在高风险性以及部分公众环保意识的迅速增强，使得政府充分发挥民主作用，鼓励和引导更深、更广层次的公众参与成为迫切要求。本文将在充分认识公众参与环保事业现状的前提下，研究其特殊性与局限性，并重新明确、界定公众参与的对象，最后在识别已有条件和潜在机遇的基础上，探索如何充分利用信息化、市场化条件建立、完善各种公众参与渠道，进而创造生动、务实的公众参与环境保护的局面。

Study on Public Participation in Environmental Protection

In China, it has been making progress for the public to participate and assist the work of government. However, the method and extent of participation still need to be amended and broaden. Because of the potential high risk of resolutions of some environment problems and ascending demand of the public to protect the environment, to better promote democracy and to encourage and induct broader and more profound pubic participation is impendence right now. In this paper, with the precondition of full understanding of recent public participation in environmental protection, we study the particular situation in China and its disadvantages, then definitude and redefine the categories of people involved in public participation. In the last, by identifying the qualifications and opportunities of environmental public participation, we explore a new situation that the public participate in environmental protection in a vivid and concrete way by clearing and amending the channels for public participation under the advantage of informationization and market power.