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People and Community Engagement in Biodiversity Conservation

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Public participation

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People and community engagement is a process through which affected sides influence and share control over development initiatives and the decisions and resources which affect them (Santiso 2001).

Public participation encompasses a group of procedures designed to consult, involve, and inform the public to allow those affected by a decision to have an input into that decision (Smith 2003).

Introduction

People and community engagement envisages the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the decision-making process with an interest in outcomes, bringing together the key actors and supporting and challenging all wider public to be actively engaged. Participation or engagement is the “power to influence the decision-making process.” Public participation and community engagement has rooted over hierarchical public policy practitioner – client relation that dominated the positivistic policy sciences and practice – and is a viable, if not...

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    Nataša Lovrić

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Lovrić, N. (2019). People and Community Engagement in Biodiversity Conservation. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_94-1

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