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Enhancing Public Acceptance of Risky Projects: Insights for Stakeholder Engagement

This study explores strategies to boost local stakeholder acceptance of risky projects like nuclear waste repositories. It emphasizes fair engagement, understanding stakeholder interests, and fostering creativity and flexibility. Learn how to align projects with stakeholder life-plans to increase acceptance and quash compensation-driven strategies that can backfire.

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Enhancing Public Acceptance of Risky Projects: Insights for Stakeholder Engagement

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  1. Acceptance of risky projects by the public: the case of a repository for nuclear waste • What makes a project acceptable to local stakeholders? • How to improve the odds of acceptance by local stakeholders • The final message

  2. What makes a project acceptable to local stakeholders? • No compensations but a fair share as an enabled stakeholder; • Not scientific assurances but true understanding; • No appeal to the ‘public interest’ but : The possibility for local stakeholders to insert a project into their own life-plan: their interests and enjoyment of life, their ambitions, dreams and expectations

  3. The perverse effect of the compensation strategy In order to qualify for a maximum of compensations a project should look as damaging, unsafe and obstructing as possible

  4. Fair share • The notion of stakeholder: an insider with full rights who benefits in equal measure; • The notion of local or personal stakeholder: • They take it personally • They are not to the point • They only consider their personal interests • They lack expertise • From ‘stuckholder’ to stakeholder

  5. Nobody is impressed by technological feats anymore

  6. The ‘public interest’ is a medieval notion

  7. How to improve the odds of acceptance by local stakeholders • The possibility for local stakeholders to insert a project into their own life-plan: their interests and enjoyment of life, their ambitions, dreams and expectations • How should a project look like to make this possible?

  8. Flexibility • Engineering projects tend to be mono-functional • Engineering projects are often uninspired • Engineering projects are closed to their environment Creative design Transparency

  9. Flexibility: the capacity of a project to fulfil diverse needs on several dimensions

  10. Flexibel rooms Flexibel relations

  11. Flexibel tools Flexibel spaces

  12. Creative design in storage ?

  13. Creative design in storage

  14. Openness

  15. Transparency

  16. The final message There is hope: people show great ingenuity in finding alternative usages or functions beyond and instead of the original purpose

  17. A car is for driving A barrel is no home A dump is no sanctuary A phone is for calling

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