Stakeholders can be classified with an ‘‘interest – influence’’ matrix, which displays their attributes and inter-relationships. Reed et al. (2009, pp. 9-10) classifies stakeholders into four groups (Figure 4) based on their importance and influence, which facilitates identifying the level of involvement. Key players are the most important stakeholders (usually farmers, nature protection administration, etc) and should be present at any time. Context setters (usually local authorities, ministries, agencies and state institutes, local celebrities, local media, officials, business/trade union leaders, etc.) are those stakeholders with much power but little interest in the process, and they should be also always present but in lower numbers/ with less representatives. Subjects are those that have much interest but little power (NGOs, scientists, recreational users, affected local residents) and it is recommended that their representatives are present. Finally, Crowd (remaining local residents) is defined as those stakeholders that have neither much power nor much interest. This last group could be just informed about the process since interests might change over time.
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