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Designing Participation Processes for Water Management and Beyond

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dc.contributor.author von Korff, Yorck
dc.contributor.author d'Aquino, Patrick
dc.contributor.author Daniell, Katherine A.
dc.contributor.author Bijlsma, Rianne
dc.date.accessioned 2010-09-16T14:28:37Z
dc.date.available 2010-09-16T14:28:37Z
dc.date.issued 2010 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6343
dc.description.abstract "This article addresses the question of how to design participation processes in water management and other fields. Despite a lot of work on participation, and especially its evaluation, this question has received little attention in the research literature. However, it is important, because previous research has made it clear that participation may yield important benefits for humans and the environment but that these benefits do not occur automatically. One precondition is sound design. The design of participation processes has been addressed in detail in the so-called 'craft' literature but more rarely in the scientific literature. This article helps close this gap by systematically analyzing and comparing five design guides to determine whether it is possible to combine them into a more robust guide. The article confirms that possibility and presents a preliminary outline for such a guide. Principles for participatory process orientation are presented, as well as numerous partially iterative steps. The adaptive process is laid out in a way intended to help designers determine the objectives of the participation process and the initial design context, and make preplanning choices that eventually lead to the selection of suitable participation mechanisms. There are also design tools that facilitate this work. We discuss how our findings are largely compatible with previous research on participation, notably the work on criteria for “good” or 'effective' participation processes. We also argue that our article advances research on an important remaining question in the scientific literature on participation: What process should be chosen in which context?" en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject water management en_US
dc.subject design principles en_US
dc.subject participatory development en_US
dc.title Designing Participation Processes for Water Management and Beyond en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 15 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 3 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth June en_US


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