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Stakeholder engagement in systematic reviews and maps

Stakeholder engagement is an integral part of all systematic reviews to some degree. However, there has been little discussion of this important process in systematic review guidance to date, particularly in the field of environmental management and conservation. This series of commentary articles discusses various aspects of engaging with stakeholders: describing the ranges of methods available, outlining experiences from various systematic review experts, and discussing issues relating to conflict, the benefits of training, engaging directly with decision-makers, and communicating review results.

Edited by Neal Haddaway and Sally Crowe

  1. The creation and accumulation of robust bodies of knowledge, along with their dissemination, utilisation and integration in decision support are key to improving the use of evidence in decision-making. Systema...

    Authors: Alexandra M. Collins, Deborah Coughlin and Nicola Randall
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2019 8:2
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  3. Storytelling is a two-way interaction, written or oral, between someone telling a story and one or more listeners. It is a well-known and powerful means of communicating messages and engaging audiences. In thi...

    Authors: Anneli Sundin, Karolin Andersson and Robert Watt
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2018 7:6
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  4. How to best assess potential health, environmental and other impacts of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and how to interpret the resulting evidence base have been long-standing controversial issues in th...

    Authors: Armin Spök, Monica Racovita, Sandra Karner, Gloria Adduci, Greet Smets, Patrick Rüdelsheim, Christian Kohl, Ralf Wilhelm and Joachim Schiemann
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2018 7:1
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  5. Important policy questions tend to span a range of academic disciplines, and the relevant research is often carried out in a variety of social, economic and geographic contexts. In efforts to synthesise resear...

    Authors: Sandy Oliver, Paul Garner, Pete Heywood, Janet Jull, Kelly Dickson, Mukdarut Bangpan, Lynn Ang, Morel Fourman and Ruth Garside
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:28
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  6. Involving stakeholders in systematic reviews is common practice and is advised in the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) Guidelines (v.4.2). Frameworks for engaging stakeholders exist and should be...

    Authors: Jessica J. Taylor, Trina Rytwinski, Joseph R. Bennett and Steven J. Cooke
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:26
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  7. Systematic reviews and systematic maps, regarded as a gold standard for syntheses of documented research evidence, are increasingly used to inform decisions in environmental management. To increase their relev...

    Authors: Magnus Land, Biljana Macura, Claes Bernes and Sif Johansson
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:25
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  8. Systematic reviews and maps are complex methods for synthesising evidence that involve specialist and resource-intensive activities. Systematic reviewers face challenges when attempting to clearly and precisel...

    Authors: Jacqualyn Eales, Neal R. Haddaway and J. Angus Webb
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:22
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  9. As a methodology designed to inform policy and practice decisions, it is particularly important to ensure that systematic reviews are shaped by those who will use them. There is a broad range of approaches for...

    Authors: Laurenz Langer, Yvonne Erasmus, Natalie Tannous and Ruth Stewart
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:20
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  10. Systematic reviews and maps in the environmental field are often carried out in contexts of contestation between different knowledge holders and users, placing demands on the review team to constructively rela...

    Authors: Rasmus Kløcker Larsen and Annika E. Nilsson
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:17
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  11. People have a stake in conservation and environmental management both for their own interests and the sake of the environment itself. Environmental decision-making has changed somewhat in recent decades to acc...

    Authors: N. R. Haddaway, C. Kohl, N. Rebelo da Silva, J. Schiemann, A. Spök, R. Stewart, J. B. Sweet and R. Wilhelm
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:11
    Content type: Methodology Published on: