Standard Guide for Stakeholder Engagement on Environmental Risk Management and Climate

Importancia y uso:

5.1 Stakeholder engagement, in the climate vulnerability context, most often refers to the meaningful involvement of affected parties in planning or decision-making efforts in order to integrate their knowledge and values with a particular project’s more specialized knowledge and purpose. In turn, stakeholders are often broadly defined as those people who are affected by or can affect a decision and range from the “average” citizen to groups of highly interested or invested decision-makers.

5.2 It is important that stakeholders understand the role they are invited to play in a public engagement program. This will help provide clarity to the process and help avoid misunderstandings. Stakeholder roles may naturally evolve over the period that they are engaged in a public process, and as transition occurs, it is wise to redefine these roles. When an advisory committee or partnership between public agencies is established, it is helpful to develop a charter or other memo of understanding that describes the roles and responsibilities of all involved.

5.3 EPA’s Public Involvement Spectrum (2015)(6) can provide useful tools. Fig. 2 illustrates a spectrum of public involvement options that may be appropriate.

FIG. 2 EPA Public Involvement Spectrum.

Source: U.S. EPA’s Public Involvement Spectrum

Subcomité:

E50.05

Referida por:

E2348-24, E3360-25, E3377-24, E2091-24, E2893-25, E3488-25, E1943-24, E2091-24, E1943-24, E2893-25

Volúmen:

11.06

Número ICS:

13.020.70 (Environmental projects)

Palabras clave:

affected parties; alternative dispute resolution; climate vulnerability; meaningful involvement; stakeholder engagement; vulnerable communities;