This section presents the main lessons learned from fifteen years of participatory assessment practice in different contexts and in relation to different environmental issues. These are a series of assessments initiated within the framework of European research projects. They are constructed as partnerships between science and management with a certain level of stakeholder representation.

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Lesson 01. Ensure shared leadership between science and management

In most cases, the initiative for participatory assessment comes from science, because of increasingly project - and policy-oriented research funding. The risk is that science imposes its own agenda and perspective, making managers feel that they are being instrumentalised.