Goal-responsive community participation : an imperative for integrated social-economic-environmental analyses. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

A practical, tested approach to involve the overall community in the planning and decision-making process so that a consensus for implementation can be reached, is described. The conceptual background of the approach and its successful application to one of the series of domestic and international projects are discussed.