Evaluation of stakeholder participation in monitoring regional sustainable development |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Frans?L?P?HermansEmail author Wim?M?F?Haarmann John?F?L?M?M?Dagevos |
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Institution: | (1) Telos, Brabant Centre for Sustainable Development, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands;(2) Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a theoretical framework that can be used to discuss the question of how context, time and different participatory
process designs influence the results of participatory monitoring projects in terms of concrete outputs (such as sustainability
indicators) and the more intangible social outcomes (such as learning and stakeholder relations). We will discuss and compare
four different cases of participatory monitoring of provincial sustainable development in the Netherlands. The results show
sustainability issues selected by the stakeholders reflect the socio-economic and ecological structural characteristics of
their region. In a different context, stakeholders not only assign different weights to the same set of issues, but more importantly
they select a completely different set of regional aims altogether. Since these regional structural characteristics only change
slowly over time, the influence of time on stakeholder preferences is shown to be only of minor importance. However, the dissipation
of learning effects is shown to be a fundamental challenge for the cyclical nature of participatory monitoring, especially
when its goal is shared agenda building. Another important conclusion is that, in the design of participatory processes, more
attention should be devoted to providing stakeholders with the opportunity to comment on an ‘intermediate’ product. |
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