By taking planning environmental impact assessment of "the eleventh-five-year" industrial development plan of Fuyuan county as case study,how to use simple and practical assessment methods for western less developed region is discussed to overcome the seriously polluted environment and unmatured methods to combine the assessment and decision-making organically.

Analysis on political oriented technology assessment paradigm and its evolution process;

Analysis on the pattern of public participatory technology assessment and its enlightenment to China;

Analysis on meaning and political impact of public participatory technology assessment;