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: Received: 17 July 2024 / Approved: 17 July 2024 / Online: 17 July 2024 (14:01:07 CEST)
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De Meo, I.; Paletto, A.; Baldessari, S. Rethinking Public Participation in Forest Policies: A Literature Review of Participatory Techniques. Preprints2024, 2024071451. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1451.v1
De Meo, I.; Paletto, A.; Baldessari, S. Rethinking Public Participation in Forest Policies: A Literature Review of Participatory Techniques. Preprints 2024, 2024071451. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1451.v1
De Meo, I.; Paletto, A.; Baldessari, S. Rethinking Public Participation in Forest Policies: A Literature Review of Participatory Techniques. Preprints2024, 2024071451. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1451.v1
APA Style
De Meo, I., Paletto, A., & Baldessari, S. (2024). Rethinking Public Participation in Forest Policies: A Literature Review of Participatory Techniques. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1451.v1
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De Meo, I., Alessandro Paletto and Sofia Baldessari. 2024 "Rethinking Public Participation in Forest Policies: A Literature Review of Participatory Techniques" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1451.v1
Abstract
Recently, the concept of participatory democracy developed in the early 1970s has come back into fashion to revitalize the public involvement in political decision-making processes. Public par-ticipation in forest policy has been fully conceptualized by the scientific community in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but in many contexts the practical application remains unfulfilled. The aim of this study is to identify and analyze the participatory techniques used in literature to increase knowledge and facilitate its transferability into forest policies and strategies. A literature review was carried out to offer an overview of the participatory techniques adopted in the deci-sion-making process. At the end of literature review, 25 participatory techniques were identified based on over 2,000 publications. Afterwards, the participatory techniques were assessed using seven indicators (degree of participation, type and number of participants, time scale, cost, po-tential influence on policy). The results showed that the type of actors involved in the participa-tory technique is a key variable for the complexity and usefulness of the process, while the number of participants influences how information is disseminated. The Principal Component Analysis highlighted that the participatory techniques can be divided in three groups: the first group includes those techniques with a high degree of participation and a contextual high po-tential influence on policies, the second one includes techniques with a costs in terms of re-sources, while the third one consists of those with a large number of participants and reduced time requirements.
Keywords
participatory democracy; citizen involvement; decision making; inclusiveness; degree of in-volvement
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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