In November 1998, the National Center for Environmental Decision-Making Research (NCEDR) published a Technical Report on "Stakeholder Participation in the U.S. National Assessment of Possible Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Suggested Guidelines for Doing It Right".

In the context of an assessment grounded in regional dialogues, these suggested guidelines were offered as one basis for meeting the challenge of "doing participation right". They summarize the knowledge base about stakeholder participation, considering the "why," the "who," and the "how" based on the science associated with the subject of public participation. They also propose a set of principles to be followed in stakeholder participation in all parts of the national assessment, and proposes templates for keeping track of stakeholder participation, to enable assessment teams to eventually answer questions concretely about what process they followed.

Copies of the document still may be available from the US Climate Change Science Program / US Global Change Research Program, Suite 250, 1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Tel: +1 202 223 6262. Fax: +1 202 223 3065. Email: information@usgcrp.gov..