Public participation GIS (PPGIS) methods have progressed over the last decade, but as a
rapidly evolving practice and area of research, there are new challenges. To identify the key …

The concept of public participation is one of growing interest in the UK and elsewhere, with a
commensurate growth in mechanisms to enable this. The merits of participation, however …

While participatory urban and regional planning have become a widely accepted approach
to enhance the democratic aims of community and urban development, challenges still …

Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about" bowling alone"
seized the nation in the 1990s. Many pundits and observers have cheered America's twenty …

Current public participation methods are laborious, reach few participants and are ineffective
at gathering usable information for planning. This situation leads often to mistrust and …

Aims: Stakeholder engagement is fundamental to comparative effectiveness research
(CER), but lacks consistent terminology. This paper aims to define stakeholder engagement …

Risk is an amazing concept. It has lingered on the fringe of academics for years, but only in
the past three decades has its broad application and examination become adopted. It …

This article presents the results of research designed to test participatory democracy
assertions that high‐quality public participation can affect participants' beliefs in desirable …

Getting what you want–even if you are the boss–isn't always easy. Almost every
organization, big or small, works among a network of competing interests. Whether it's …

Key documents such as the European Water Framework Directive and the US Clean Water
Act state that public and stakeholder participation in water resource management is …