“…The term has been used to refer to citizen participation, community participation, public participation, popular participation and people participation, involving renewal or rehabilitation (Soen, 1981). It has also been used in studies on conservation (Curtis and Lockwood, 2000;Townshend and Pendlebury, 1999); village regrouping (Olujimi and Egunjobi, 1991); water supply (Fitzgerald, 1993;Bah, 1992); community centre development (Setterlund and Abbott, 1995); housing (Fahui and Van Loo, 1998;Nientied et al, 1990;Stein, 1990); social impact (Durst, 1994); health promotion (Goddman and Speers, 1998); community planning (Berkeley et al, 1995); and also on management of environmental and health risks (Rowe and Frewer, 2000).…”