Bottom up and top down: analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable environmental management.

By Evan D. G. Fraser, A. Dougill, W. Mabee, M. Reed, P. Mcalpine. Journal of Environmental Management, 2006

1,115 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Building and Construction

1. A. Dougill
2. M. Reed
3. A. Scerri
4. P. James
5. Klaus Hubacek
6. Liam Magee

In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Dougill
2. Klaus Hubacek
3. M. Reed
4. Evan D. G. Fraser
5. Claire H. Quinn

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. M. Reed
2. A. Dougill
3. Evan D. G. Fraser
4. Lindsay C. Stringer
5. A. Scerri
6. P. James
7. Klaus Hubacek
8. Liam Magee

Citations in the corpus

• Unpacking “Participation” in the Adaptive Management of Social–ecological Systems: a Critical Review (2006, background): “Monitoring activities represent one stage of the adaptive cycle where the literature shows that successful participation can take place (e.g., Fraser et al. 2006, Guijt and Proost 2002, Olsson et al. 2004).”
• An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities (2006, background): “However, this is rarely done, partly due to fact that stakeholder involvement can lead to a large number of potential indicators (for example, in a participatory process to develop indicators of sustainable forestry in Western Canada, stakeholders chose 141 social indicators and a similar number of ”
• Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. (2009, background): “In contrast, participatory natural resource management and development literature advocates on-going and evolving involvement of stakeholders beyond stakeholder analysis, at every stage of the project cycle (Fraser et al., 2006; Stringer et al., 2006).”
• Measuring Social Sustainability: A Community-Centred Approach (2012, background): “Among the operant distinctions are those between strong and weak definitions of sustainability (Atkinson 2000); between top–down (expert-driven) and bottom–up (community-driven) indicator development (Fraser et al. 2006); and between economic, ecological and holistic or indexical approaches towards ”