Multi-Stakeholder Communication and Coordination : Cases in point from North West Russia

For the last fifteen years the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency provided financial support to environment and development initiatives in the Baltic Sea region. One of these initiatives, the "Agriculture and Environment in Leningrad Oblast" program, was pointed out as successful in establishing a multi-stakeholder pilot activity in North West Russia. This book is taking the reader on a research enquiry through the second phase of the AELO program, named "Agriculture, Environment and Ecosystem Health in North West Russia," exploring the interactions between multi-stakeholder processes with communication and coordination, based on the concept of "Multi-stakeholder platform" as a "space for change." For this, Soft System Methodology methods and techniques are used to appraise the second phase program's communication and coordination imprints and its Multi-stakeholder platform.