Stakeholder analysis for industrial waste management systems

Assessing the relevance of stakeholder analysis for national ecological network governance: The case of the Green Network in Estonia

“…information management (Rowley 2011), and to several fields of environmental governance: waste management (Heidrich et al 2009); marine planning (Buanes et al 2004;Mikalsen & Jentoft 2001;Pomeroy & Douvere 2008); forest governance (Salam & Noguchi 2006); protected area management (Mushove & Vogel 2005;Rastogi et al 2010); or, environmental impact assessment (EIA) (Sovacool 2010). Despite its wide usage, the meaning of the term is contested.…”

“…Taking the 'affect criterion' proposed by Freeman (2010); (see for a recent application by Heidrich et al (2009)) as a basis, we define stakeholders as individuals, groups of people or organisations who are somehow related to the Estonian Green Network planning and implementation, i.e. who are affected (positively or negatively) by decisions regarding Green Network, or who can affect these decisions.…”

“…SA can be a valuable tool to reveal power relations with a reference to past or existing decision-making processes (Evans 2009;Heidrich et al 2009). We explore stakeholders' perceptions about their involvement experiences, and their self-stated level of satisfaction with them, as well as with the level of influence they perceive to have had on decisions.…”

Making Industry Part of the Climate Solution

“…Third, by making some stakeholders and their power relations more visible, critical stakeholder analysis can improve social responsibility and force desirable change. Numerous examples abound of organizations and stakeholders being forced to alter their practices in response to stakeholder analysis and participation (Heidrich, Harvey, and Tollin, 2009;Brown and Sovacool, 2011, Chapter 6).…”

Estrategia para la mejora de la gestión de la información ambiental de los productos de consumo. El ecoetiquetado como nexo entre consumidor, empresa y administración

“…Un agente o actor social es "cualquier persona o grupo que se pueda ver afectado por los intereses o logros de una compañía" (Carroll y Buhholtz, 2000 en Heidrich et al, 2002). De estos agentes se necesita la participación con el objetivo de tender hacia modelos más sostenibles de mercado.…”