Community Enagement Resources
Are you looking to incorporate a community engagement component into your decision-making process but are unsure about where to start, or what type of community engagement process to use? If so, this selection of community engagement methods has a number of useful resources for you. Please note our codes in the resource title that will help you narrow in on specific types of resources:
Introduction to Community Engagement (ICE) - resources that illustrate the spectrum of community engagement and the range of community engagement approaches available.
Community Engagement Methods (CEM) - how-to guides for some innovative community engagement approaches.
A Typology of Public Engagement Mechanisms (ICE)
Are you finding all the information available on public participation a little bit disorienting? Are you frustrated by the lack of consistent definitions? Are you wondering why there are so many different public engagement mechanisms - many of which are very similar to one another, differing only in the order in which a number of processes are implemented?
This journal article is an analytical tool that can be used when sorting through various public engagement methods. It develops a typology of public engagement mechanisms. It clarifies what public engagement entails and does not entail and clarifies how the various mechanisms are similar and dissimilar.
Level: Advanced
Download Here, A Typology of Public Engagement Mechanisms, PDF 624KB
Publication Information: Rowe, G. and Frewer, L. 2005. A Typology of Public Engagement Methods. Science, Technology & Human Values.