A Conceptual Framework for Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Change through Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resource Management

Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework studying social possible through management, from inception to outcomes. We synthesize concepts multiple literatures provide tracing linkages contextual conditions, process design features, learning, community capacity building, behavioral change at individual, group, group network levels, ultimately change. discuss opportunities enhance including empirical applications delineate scalar temporal dimensions social, behavioral, resulting engagement, potential negative outcomes thus far glossed over research on engagement.