The COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Phase: Towards a Problem-Solving Pathway Based On Effective Public Participation and Sustainable Development
TAGS: COVID-19; recovery; conflict; public participation; goals; Aarhus Convention; sustainable development; NIMBY. “Involving the public in decision-making processes is widely believed to improve the quality of the resulting decisions and to strengthen the credibility of the decision-making process and its outcome.” United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (2012) . In moving from the response phase to the recovery phase for the COVID-19 global pandemic, should the goal for Government be to “ jettison red and green tape at every level of government to stimulate jobs and re-energise growth during the post COVID-19 fiscal fightback”? Or should the recovery phase f rom the COVID-19 pandemic be seen by Government as a classic sustainable development problem to resolve ? The interdependence and mutual support between effective public participation and sustainable development provides the framework for finding sustainable solutions during the recovery phase of the p