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Group Learning in Participatory Planning Processes

An Exploratory Quasiexperimental Analysis of Local Mitigation Planning in Florida

Florida State University

Carissa Schively Slotterback

Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota

Scholars have identified group learning as both an outcome of effective participatory planning processes and as the means to achieving agreement on planning outputs and to building constituencies for plan implementation. This article examines the challenges of designing empirical studies of group learning in participatory planning processes that have strong internal and external validity and reports the results of a quasiexperimental analysis of how different degrees of participation increase mutual understanding of planning problems and solutions.

Key Words: participatory planning • group learning • quasiexperimental design • hazard mitigation

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, 23-38 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X09333116


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