human and ecological systems
are increasingly influenced by public or stakeholder
participation, which we will call “participation” in
this article. International agreements such as the
1992 Rio Declaration or the 1998 Aarhus
Convention, European legislation such as the
2000
Water Framework Directive, and national
regulations, e.g., for France (Roche 2003), demand
the involvement of the affected
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