Public consultations
Meetings, surveys or questions to gather public input on decisions
“Public Meeting to Discuss Issues at San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Oct. 9, 2012” by NRCgov is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Public consultations are an adaptive strategy used to gather public perspectives and opinions on transition pathways and decisions. Consultations can happen through in person meetings, surveys, or online input forms. They are most frequently initiated by government actors but the CINTRAN inventory also recorded examples where NGOs, and even private citizens designed surveys and processes and then presented this information to government.
Public consultations can happen at any transition stage. They are most effective when the input received is meaningfully integrated into decision-making. This means that more successful consultations happen early in decision-making processes, and not after key decisions have been made. When public consultation input is not meaningfully integrated, populations can become disillusioned and lose trust in decision-makers.
Funding
The CINTRAN project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 884539. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the authors and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of CINEA or other EU agencies or bodies.