ABSTRACT
A well known issue in urban environmental planning processes is stakeholder participation. Evaluating past and present experiences it has become evident that active public participation in development strategies has proven to be more efficient and effective than top-down approaches. Due to its positive implications, participatory mechanisms have increasingly been incorporated in the design and implementation of planning strategies. Presently, the trend shows that central and local urban agencies world-wide are exercising a diversity of such methodologies. One of these mechanisms are environmental indicators generated at the local level.
