Public participation, engagement, and climate change adaptation: A review of the research literature.

ABSTRACT: There is a clear need for a state-of-the-art review of how public participation in climate change adaptation is being considered in research across academic communities: The Rio Declaration developed in 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) included explicit goals of citizen participation and engagement in climate actions (Principle 10). Nation states were given special responsibility to facilitate these by ensuring access to information and opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. Since then the need for public participation has featured prominently in calls to climate action. Using text analysis to produce a corpus of abstracts drawn from Web of Science, a review of literature incorporating public participation and citizen engagement in climat

SUBMITTER: Hugel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature