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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.

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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. 

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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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

www.aware‐eu.net

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