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Connecting People for Better Coastal Water Management in Europe
Enhancing Integrated Adaptive Water Management through Citizen Participation:
An Evaluation Perspective
AWARE is funded by the European Community’s
Seventh Framework Programme.
Integrated adaptive management
About AWAREWorking for sustainable water ecosystems management
by means of scientists, citizens and decision‐makers knowledge brokerage
Managers
ScientistsPublic
ManagersScientists
Public
Managers
Scientists Public
Traditional managementLimited participation
adaptive management
AWARE ObjectivesAWARE posits that there is a potential for better
connectivity between actors and that there is a need to improve it in the short term
To foster sustainable water ecosystems managementTo enhance connectivity between research, policy making and the publicTo link research to policy development regarding sustainable water ecosystems management
Inviting a “third player”
in the game: citizens
AWARE Case Studies Pilot experiments were
undertaken in:
The coastal waters of the Gulf of Riga (Estonia and Latvia)
The Seine, Somme, and Schelde river basins and the Southern North Sea coastal zone (France and Belgium)
The Po river Delta and Goro lagoon (Italy)
AWARE Case Studies (cont.)Main challenges faced:
Eutrophication (in all 3 case studies)
Transboundary coordination to develop and implement solutions (in the Gulf of Riga and the Southern North Sea)
Development of a sustainable clam farming activity (in the Goro lagoon)
AWARE Process
Decision- makers
ScientistsAll 30
AWARE Citizens
Stake- holders
European Conference
process
Decision- makers
Scientists 10 local Citizens
Stake- holders
Local Conference
process
European
Declaration
Local
Declaration
Evaluation Methodology
1)
Factual informationHow many citizens applied? What stakeholders were represented? What
recruitment methods were used?
2)
ObservationWhat type of knowledge (expert, tacit, local) was exchanged? What methods were used to disseminate and exchange knowledge?
3)
Informal interviews
with citizensWhat has been learned? How were interactions perceived?
4)
Questionnaire completed by all participantsDid knowledge of participants increase? Did attitudes change?
Soundness, quality and efficiency of the process
Effectiveness in terms of outcome
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Recruitment of citizens: • representativeness and legitimacy of a random group of citizens
Interaction between citizens and scientific experts:• assumptions must be carefully explained• a new range of perceptions to knowledge and research
Overall perception by different stakeholders and citizens:• presence of the whole spectrum of actors is a fundamental requisite• reasonable balance given to ideas and opinion of each individual
Process
Evaluation Lessons LearnedOutcomes
Local declarations on the level of the 3 case studies: • Overall satisfaction with processing and integration of views in
a useful
and informative document• Conclusions on knowledge provided in all participatory steps
European Citizen declaration:• Compressing information for the purpose of presenting to decision‐
makers viewed more critical than the local process• Importance of concrete actions evolving from the discussion with
stakeholders
For more information about AWARE including the project publications
please see
AWARE receives funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant
agreement n°
226456. The contents of this poster are the sole responsibility
of the AWARE project and the
European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of
the information contained therein.
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