title: A framework to implement Stakeholder participation in environmental projects.
abstract: Participation has emerged as an appropriate approach for enhancing natural resources management. However, despite long experimentation with participation, there are still possibilities for improvement in designing a process of stakeholder involvement by addressing stakeholder heterogeneity and the complexity of decision-making processes. This paper provides a state-of-the-art overview of methods. It proposes a comprehensive framework to implement stakeholder participation in environmental projects, from stakeholder identification to evaluation. For each process within this framework, techniques are reviewed and practical tools proposed. The aim of this paper is to establish methods to determine who should participate, when and how. The application of this framework to one river restoration case study in Switzerland will illustrate its strengths and weaknesses.
authors.affiliation: School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Environmental Fluid and Hydrology (EFLUM), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 2, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Luyet
authors.forename: Rodolphe
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schlaepfer
authors.forename: Marc B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Parlange
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buttler
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D058735:Environmental Policy; D045483:Rivers; D013557:Switzerland