Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Processes

In areas such as nature based solutions and biodiversity, Prospex enables effective dialogue, lasting agreements and strategies for changing contexts. Prospex is a pioneer service provider in stakeholder engagement, strategic foresight and negotiation & conflict resolution in complex science-policy-society interfaces and participatory processes. We have developed the STIR-approach to stakeholder integrated research, published and peer-reviewed in Climatic Change. Prospex has substantial experience with int. actors in research, civil society, government & business in high level projects (e.g. OPERAS – moving ecosystem services and natural capital beyond academia, or CASCADE - creating solutions for biodiversity hotspots in the Middle East).

Ecosystems

Coastal
Continental shelf
Cropland
Grassland
Heathland and shrub
Marine inlets and transitional waters
Open ocean
Rivers and lakes
Sparsely vegetated land

Implementation

Adaptation
Adaptive management
Certification / standards
Development control
Ecosystem approach
Ecosystem management
Habitat creation
Mitigation
Policy reform
Protected area management
Regulation
Rehabilitation/Restoration
Reporting

Methods

Ecosystem assessment
Impact assessment
Institutional analysis
Landscape character assessment
Mapping/GIS
Modelling
Multi-criteria decision analysis/decision-support tools
Participatory scenario analysis
Policy analysis
Public participation
Scenario development

Regions

Alpine
Continental
Northern
Atlantic
Southern

Topics

Desertification
Direct use value
Displacement/off-site effects
Ecosystem dis-services
Ecosystem services
Ethics
Existence value
Extensification
Final Ecosystem Services
Fire
Gender
Goods
Governance
Green infrastructure
Habitat banking
Heritage (cultural and natural)
Human well-being
Indicators/criteria
Indirect use value
Intensification
Intermediate ecosystem services
Intrinsic value
Land degradation
Land management
Land use change
Landscape
Market value
Natural capital
Nature-based solutions
Net primary production (biological production)
Policy
Protected areas
Provisioning service
Public health
Regime shift
Regulating service
Regulatory limits
Resilience
Rewilding
Social justice
Societal choice
Stakeholders
Supporting service
Sustainability
Thresholds
Tipping points
Trade-offs
Urbanisation
Zoning

Uses of this product

For nature based solutions, ecosystem services, biodiversity and many other areas, Prospex enables effective dialogue, lasting agreements and strategies for changing contexts.

Prospex is a pioneer service provider in the fields of stakeholder engagement, strategic foresight and negotiation & conflict resolution. We have developed the STIR approach to stakeholder integrated research, published and peer-reviewed in Climatic Change. We are specialists in engaging stakeholders in complex science-policy-society interfaces and participatory processes.

Prospex has substantial experience with international organisations and governments, companies and associations, civil society and research organisations in a wide range of high level projects. This includes for instance OPERAS - a five-year EU flagship project moving ecosystem services and natural capital beyond academia towards practical implementation. Another example is CASCADE, a project creating solutions biodiversity hotspots in the Middle East, between Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis.

We are happy to put our expertise at the service of your organisation and projects.

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Advantages

Pioneer service provider in the fields of stakeholder engagement, strategic foresight and negotiation & conflict resolution
Substantial experience with international organisations and governments, companies and associations, civil society and research organisations in a wide range of high level projects
Developed the STIR approach to stakeholder integrated research, published and peer-reviewed in Climatic Change

Links

DOI reference

10.1007/s10584-014-1225-x - Gramberger , M., K. Zellmer , K. Kok and M. Metzger (2014) Stakeholder Integrated Research (STIR): A new approach tested in climate change adaptation research. Climatic Change, 128(3), 201- 214

Contact details

Dr. Marc Gramberger is the managing director of Prospex. He designs and facilitates corporate learning, stakeholder engagement and foresight processes. Marc is a renowned facilitator of international conferences and workshops, and an international expert in foresight and scenario methodologies and stakeholder engagement. With interactive, creative and thorough interventions, he helps his clients to identify, understand and master strategic challenges in their organisational context. Marc has worked with a huge variety of organisations in the international arena, facilitated the UNEP Emerging Issues foresight process “21 Issues for the 21st Century“, has led many international participatory scenario and foresight projects, such as projects on the future of water in Europe and in the Middle East, the future of pandemics (ASEF-ASAP) and a series of EU 7th Research Framework projects (CLIMSAVE, VOLANTE, etc.). He is the author of the official landmark OECD handbook “Citizens as Partners“.

Phone +32 15 225 440; headquarters@prospex.com

Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Processes

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