“FAA Community Engagement or Community DIS-Engagement?” Airport Noise Report (ANR) Article – July-June 2021
Date: July-June 2021
Description: Community activists outline problems with the FAA’s Community Engagement process and document instances where they believe the FAA has not acted in good faith.
1. Full Paper: “FAA Community Engagement – or Community DIS-Engagement?“
Released on June 30, 2021 as an attachment in the emailed issue to ANR subscribers.
2. Published Article: “FAA Community Engagement – or Community DIS-Engagement?”
July 2, 2021 – Article features excerpts from an AICA paper outlining problems with FAA’s Community Engagement Process.
Key Related Resources
- Ladder of Citizen Participation Model by Sherry Arnstein, OrganizingEngagement.org
- FAA’s Report to Congress on Community Involvement in FAA NextGen Projects Located in Metroplexes, Section 176 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (July 1, 2020); Retrieved from here.
Images used the header image were retrieved from:
- Morison, John. (2007). “Models of Democracy: From Representation to Participation?”.
- http://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arnstein/ladder-of-citizen-participation.html
- Elbakidze, Marine & Dawson, Lucas & Andersson, Kjell & Axelsson, Robert & Angelstam, Per & Stjernquist, Ingrid & Teitelbaum, Sara & Schlyter, Peter & Thellbro, Camilla. (2015). Is spatial planning a collaborative learning process? A case study from a rural–urban gradient in Sweden. Land Use Policy. 48. 270-285. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.05.001.