Community engagement, which includes both consultation and participation, is an integral component of many of the projects undertaken by EBC. It will often include both the dissemination of information about the project and the acquisition of information and local knowledge from stakeholders and community to assist in project development. Depending on the project and project context, community engagement may include individual consultations, workshops, stakeholder meetings, survey research, public displays or other specific techniques to suite the project context.
In many projects community engagement is integrated with technical environmental and engineering assessments and as such provides important support to the development and implementation of these assessments. In addition and through the acquisition of local knowledge additional and important information will often be acquired to complement and support the more technical assessments that are being undertaken.
While community engagement is an integral component of many of the projects undertaken by EBC, the following reports and publications illustrate those projects where community engagement has been a core focus of the project.