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Table 4 Techniques that groups might use for setting priorities Module
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Prioritization Technique Description and Reference
Traditional Voting Given a list of important environmental issues, each participant is asked
to vote, for example by:
? Show of hands. Abu Dhabi, UAE
? Secret ballot.
? A dotocratic method, where each person is given a number
of coloured stickers equalling the number of items that can be
considered. With the entire issue list placed on a single board, each
person places stickers beside their priority issues. People are allowed
to distribute their dots as they wish (i.e., they can invest all their dots
in a single issue if they feel that best represents their views). Issues
are then ranked according to the number of stickers each received.

Nominal Group Methods Participants are asked to choose a list of specific issues they feel are
most important, and to rank them by relative importance. These rankings
are collected from all participants, and aggregated.

Reference: http://www.ryerson.ca/~mjoppe/ResearchProcess/841TheNo
minalGroupTechnique.htm

Consensus Decision Making “A consensus represents a reasonable decision that all members of
the group can accept. It is not necessarily the optimal decision for each
member. When all the group members feel this way, you have reached
consensus. This means that a single person can block consensus if he or
she feels that it is necessary.”

Reference: http://www.npd-solutions.com/consensus.html

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