Dr. Laura Devaney:

I agree completely. It goes beyond getting people to accept change to having them involved from the get-go in co-designing solutions. We have had these discussions at the NESC and DCU. There is often the accusation of NIMBYism when people reject the idea as a case of "not in my back yard". However, as we have discussed, it is often not NIMBYism but because they were not engaged with from the outset when they were merely presented with the final plan and asked to accept it.