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Manuscript (June 2, 2006) We have the tools – How to attract the people? Creating a culture of Web-based participation in environmental decision making 1* 1 2 Raimo P. Hämäläinen , Jyri Mustajoki and Mika Marttunen 1Helsinki University of Technology Systems Analysis Laboratory P.O. Box 1100, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland E-mails: jyri.mustajoki@hut.fi, raimo@hut.fi 2Finnish Environment Institute P.O.Box 140, FIN-00251 Helsinki, FINLAND E-mail: mika.marttunen@ymparisto.fi * Corresponding author: Tel. +358-9-451 3054, fax +358-9-451 3096 Abstract: The proliferation of the World Wide Web has opened new opportunities to support participatory decision making. We now also have a number of Web-based tools to support participation and decision analytical methods. This opportunity is of special interest in environmental applications where we always have multiple objectives and multiple stakeholders who are often geographically in different locations. In spite of the attractiveness of the tools, we still have very limited number of users. In this paper, we discuss the ways and requirements to apply decision analytical tools in Web-based public participation. We demonstrate a framework to support participatory processes, which includes Web-based tools for decision analysis and participatory feedback. The ap