ABSTRACT
Public participation and the engagement of stakeholders play a fundamental role in any strategic environmental assessment (SEA). Their importance has been underlined both by legislation – notably the Aarhus Convention (UNECE, 1998), the SEA Directive of the European Parliament and Council (EC, 2001) or the SEA Protocol to the ‘Espoo Convention’ (UNECE, 2003) – and research, see, for example Rauschmayer and Risse (2005), Fischer (2007), Aschemann (2008), Gauthier et al. (2011), Fundingsland Tetlow and Hanusch (2012) or Rega and Baldizzone (2015).
