WIKIAlps is dedicated to analyse stakeholders for the rather general issue “Sustainable spatial development” in the thematic fields of “inclusive growth” and “resource efficiency and ecosystem management” for the Alpine Space region. It is obvious that it is not possible to perform a stakeholder analysis within the project by using the common methods for three main reasons:
Consequently a new approach of stakeholder analysis will be applied in order to give interesting stakeholder information to the program authorities of the Alpine Space Program as adequate for a capitalizing project like WIKIAlps.
There is a broad variety of stakeholders in the Alpine Space which hold or could hold interests the issue of sustainable spatial development in the thematic fields of “inclusive growth” and “resource efficiency and ecosystem management”. These issues touch not only all spatial planning stakeholders, but every economic sector from forestry to business and public services and on different spatial levels from municipalities to transnational organisations.
For all these reasons named in the previous paragraphs we suggest to abandon the idea of analyzing stakeholders in the usual way, but to analyse institutions.
The WIKIAlps project partners performed a stakeholder analysis on an institutional level using the Alpine Space project partner as a starting point. **More about the method