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Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Communities

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Stakeholders are groups of people who are able to impact, or who are impacted by, an organization or intervention. Engaging stakeholders is widely recognized as a critical aspect of sustainability because it attempts to integrate social aspects of development with economic and environmental concerns. Efforts to engage stakeholder groups take many forms and range from information sharing to capacity building for decision-making to participation in determining courses of action. This chapter reviews these modes of engagement and provides several recent examples of case studies from the global sustainability literature. Together, these studies demonstrate how each mode of engagement is unique in its ability to involve stakeholders in sustainable development efforts and how each mode has its own challenges in implementation.

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    E. Christian Wells, Gabrielle R. Lehigh & Abby M. Vidmar

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Wells, E.C., Lehigh, G.R., Vidmar, A.M. (2021). Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Communities. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_10-1

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