This article presents a systematic review of the English-language empirical literature about
citizen participation to identify the obstacles to its implementation and the most successful …

This article assesses the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-) management based on
a literature review of the (water) governance literature. The adaptive (co-) management …

Diversity is generally recognized as a key issue for learning in stakeholder dialogue on
wicked sustainability issues. Yet the question on how design of stakeholder dialogue and …

With this paper, I want to raise attention to the value of social conflict in energy policy and
planning, and the limitations of participatory processes for including different normative …

Stakeholder dialogues are proposed as a method for assessing complex ecological and
environmental problems. Stakeholder dialogues aim to enhance mutual learning by …

The article introduces the notion of adaptiveness and discusses the role of social learning in
it. Adaptiveness refers to the capacity of a social actor or social–ecological system to adapt …

Abstract Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new method to assess the desirability of
government projects. In a PVE, individuals select their preferred portfolio of government …

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We reconstruct the innovation journey of 'citizen panels', as a family of participation methods,
over four decades and across different sites of development and application. A process of …

In this paper we develop a framework for understanding how justice-related claims play a
role in the dynamics of controversy in energy projects. We do so by distinguishing two …