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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 22. Monitoring outcomes

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Lesson 21. Communicating outputs

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Lesson 20. Beware of ‘ready-made’ and of ‘Integronsters’

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Lesson 19. Walking all the way together

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Lesson 18. Due consideration to the social dimension

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Lesson 17. Mind the links

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Lesson 16. What do we call an assessment

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Lesson 15. Manage data gaps

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Lesson 14. Consider different cognitive channels

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Lesson 13. Structure knowledge in its key dimensions

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Lesson 12. Respect all knowledge

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Lesson 11. Celebrate the process

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Lesson 10. Communicate inside and outside the stakeholder forum

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Lesson 09. Build a common language

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Lesson 08. From stance to sharing positive experiences

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Lesson 07. Facilitation requires skills

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Lesson 06. Ground the assessment in the participation culture of the territory

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Lesson 05. Keep in step with the phasing

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Lesson 04. Participatory assessment is a social process

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Lesson 02. Integrate transdisciplinarity and participatory processes in academic research

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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.