Short Description
With a view to preparing the ground for the development of an enhanced methodology concerning the effective engagement of stakeholders from the public, private, research, cultural, citizen and land-owning sectors in the issue of water-based challenges at a local level, INNWATER presents a report that reflects the development of citizen engagement and participation from its roots in the social and ideological upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s to the adoption by supranational administrations of citizen engagement as a key factor in the visioning and creation of a sustainable future. INNWATER explains its definition of this essentially socio-political action, the components of society that should be involved and how technical, biological, mechanical and ecological solutions should be communicated to the co-creators of sustainable, local initiatives brought together by both traditional face-to face and digital approaches. The intended result is that the partners of INNWATER (and other contemporary and future projects) understand what the principal aims of the methodologies that they develop should be, what the consequences of their developments can be and what the basic elements of their work must be.