Summary
Once the need for a strategy has emerged on a territory in answer to an environmental issue, the first step is to identify the project core team that will lead the process. It can be one stakeholder or more often and more efficiently, a partnership between managers or regulators and scientists. This project core group or team will run the participatory assessment and will be in charge of the stakeholder engagement. This group has to be legitimated in its action on the territory for the project to be efficient.
For example, most European projects funding ask for stakeholder engagement in the project to ensure that the research is relevant to society.
This has led to many case studies originated and led by scientists, with a top-down approach of research choosing the environmental issue and presenting their results and solutions to stakeholders with a quite nominal implication (Voinov and Bousquet, 2010). For example, the framework of ecosystem services valuation – developed to support sustainable decision making and tradeoffs – has inspired a lot of academic literature but not that many ‘real life’ utilisation (Laurans et al, 2013)
Once the need for a strategy has emerged on a territory in answer to an environmental issue, the first step is to identify the project core team that will lead the process. It can be one stakeholder or more often and more efficiently, a partnership between managers or regulators and scientists. This project core group or team will run the participatory assessment and will be in charge of the stakeholder engagement. This group has to be legitimated in its action on the territory for the project to be efficient.
For example, most European projects funding ask for stakeholder engagement in the project to ensure that the research is relevant to society.
This has led to many case studies originated and led by scientists, with a top-down approach of research choosing the environmental issue and presenting their results and solutions to stakeholders with a quite nominal implication (Voinov and Bousquet, 2010). For example, the framework of ecosystem services valuation – developed to support sustainable decision making and tradeoffs – has inspired a lot of academic literature but not that many ‘real life’ utilisation (Laurans et al, 2013)
