MARGOV – building social sustainability

Enhancing public awareness and promoting co-responsibility for marine litter in Europe: The challenge of MARLISCO

“…The MARLISCO Fora format was modelled on participatory methodology developed for the participatory events in the project MARGOV (Vasconcelos & Caser, 2012), promoting large-scale public involvement. Key aspects of the MARLISCO fora included the use of a professional facilitator, a live webcast, a panel of experts, early and proactive stakeholder engagement for live audience as well as for online participants.…”

Collaborative lessons towards marine sustainability: a long-term collective engagement

“…Two researchers that participated in this process as the facilitator of a multiactor situation and as an intermediary in the co-production of knowledge respectively, act in the present study as reflective scientists (Pohl et al, 2010;Wittmayer and Schapke, 2014). With the aid of a boundary scientist external to the process, they report on the content of group discussions and its consequences for MPA management (Stratoudakis et al, 2015b-d;Batista et al, 2015) and on the evolution of the collaborative process and its wider tangible and intangible outcomes (Innes and Booher, 1999;Vasconcelos et al, 2012). The overall reflection takes in consideration "systematic institutional design" (Healey, 1997), i.e., the introduction of new rules and roles, while identifying the building up of an effective community of practice -"groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do better as they interact regularly" (Lave and Wenger, 1991) as a benchmark of success.…”

“…The case study started in 2008 and can be divided in three phases: Initially, the MARGov project was developed between 2008 and 2011 aiming to engage stakeholders dissatisfied with early public consultations and critical of PMLS implementation (Carneiro, 2011) and mobilize them in co-production of knowledge (Vasconcelos et al, 2012;Vasconcelos et al, 2015). In a second The main challenge for MARGov was to make the most out of the existing PMLS conflict, framing it to build-up a collective discourse for the MPA.…”

“…The original aim of this collective engagement was to overcome the conflict and mistrust associated to the MPA designation in 1998 and regulation in 2005 (Carneiro, 2011;Vasconcelos et al, 2012), through the creation of a local "agora" for the co-production of knowledge among academic and non-academic communities (Pohl et al, 2010). Two researchers that participated in this process as the facilitator of a multiactor situation and as an intermediary in the co-production of knowledge respectively, act in the present study as reflective scientists (Pohl et al, 2010;Wittmayer and Schapke, 2014).…”

Environmental mediation: an instrument for collaborative decision making in territorial planing

“…Moreover, a continuous process where stakeholders are truly part of the process, phased and structured, can offer promising results as shown by the MarGov Project (Vasconcelos, Caser, Pereira, Gonçalves, & sá, 2012;Vasconcelos, et al, 2013;Cebola, Caser, & Vasconcelos, 2014).…”