Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge co-production has become part of an evolution of participatory and transdisciplinary research approaches that are increasingly important for achieving sustainability. To effectively involve the most appropriate stakeholders there is a need for engagement and increasing prominence of stakeholders in environmental management and governance processes. The paper aims at developing and testing a methodology for stratifying stakeholders by (i) classifying organisations involved in coastal and ocean governance by their agency, and (ii) grouping them into organisational archetypes for representation and selection in research processes. Agency was measured by the three dimensions of scale, resources, and power. Each dimension was further elaborated as a set of indicators. The methodology

SUBMITTER: Celliers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035481 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature