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Public participation (PP) is increasingly expected to enhance the effectiveness of water resources management. This is recognized in recent legislation such as the European Union Water Framework Directive. We identify five key constituents that affect the success of PP processes and which can be used as indicators thereof. These comprise: 1) the scope of the participants; 2) communication with the public; 3) capacity building; 4) timing; and 5) financing of participation. They are based on the management of resources--namely time, human and financial resources--and on further aspects that emerge from the utilization of these resources throughout the PP process. Drawing on existing case studies from the European Union and Canada, we demonstrate the applicability of our evaluative scheme. We find severe deficits in the PP cases that can all be attributed to the five key constituents. Although not representative, our analysis points to important challenges for water policy, particularly in the European multi-level context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United States Department of Commerce has proposed a sweeping set of new rules to clarify and streamline the administration and enforcement of anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whitbread has appointed marketing and communications agency Scope to roll out its new 'Banter' restaurant brand in 88 Beefeater sires across the country. The brewer is splitting the Beefeater chain […]

Scope, the Sheffield-based creative marketing agency, has been appointed by Tesco.com to supply banner advertising on its [...]

Issues relating to the social exclusion of disabled young people in the United Kingdom are discused. Disability charity Scope has revealed that individuals with high support needs continue to experience exclusion, in spite of New Labour's care policy which focuses on the importance of social inclusion.

The US Commerce Department is sticking to its guns on the scope of a trade case targeting imports of cut-to-length plate from a dozen countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]