Evaluation Of Community Based Environmental Protection Projects
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Community Environmental Projects by Anne Camozzi,Canada. Environment Canada Pdf
This guide is aimed primarily at potential clients of Environment Canada's Action 21 Community Funding Program, which provides financial support to non-profit, non-governmental groups to undertake environmental projects that result in measurable, positive impacts on the local environment and on environmental issues of national priority. The purpose of the guide is to help a group undertake an environmental project, with particular attention on assessing community needs, setting realistic and measurable objectives, and evaluating the completed work. Sections are also included on designing the project (writing a work plan, developing a detailed budget, forging partnerships) and on implementing the project from onset to completion. A hypothetical case study is used to illustrate the concepts presented.
"Discusses how government can serve as a partner and catalyst for collaborative problem solving. Details three success stories and explains what measures were taken and why they succeeded. Distills eight core design principles that characterize effectivecollaborative governance and concludes with concrete recommendations for federal policy"--Provided by publisher.
Improving Local Decision-making Through Community Based Monitoring by Canada. Environment Canada,Canadian Nature Federation,Canada. Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Coordinating Office Pdf
This report describes a pilot project to determine the best approaches for engaging communities in ecosystem monitoring activities that contribute to local sustainability. It first reviews the traditional use of environmental information in communities and the concept of community based monitoring (CBM). It then describes the initiation of the Canadian Community Monitoring Network, lists the communities participating in the pilot project, and presents results & case studies from the project related to community mapping, participation, capacity building, and information gathering & delivery. Lessons learned & critical success factors are outlined along with key outcomes from the pilot project. The final section discusses the future of the Network.
Environmental Program and Policy Evaluation: Addressing Methodological Challenges by Matthew Birnbaum,Per Mickwitz Pdf
Although environmental policy and program evaluation emerged rather late compared to many other areas of public policy, an energetic evaluation community in the environmental field has emerged during the last decade. This is a community of evaluators with diverse backgrounds in environmental sciences, social sciences, and general evaluation. Evaluation in the environmental field is characterized by complex policies and programs around wicked problems. They exist within complex systems composed of interacting environmental and socioeconomic systems. In furthering the state of evaluation in the environmental field, this issue of focuses on key methodological challenges: time horizons scaling data credibility research designs and counterfactuals Contributors look at each challenge with two chapters, to enhance a pluralistic discourse for development of the theory and practice of environmental evaluation. The authors?from Australia, Europe, and North America?represent the diversity of the community with respect to their formal training, personal experiences, and institutional affiliations. The issue concludes with two commentaries reflecting on the discussions in relation to that of contemporary evaluation in general and a summary of the insights for the future of environmental evaluation. These chapters cumulatively hold promise for furthering the quality of evaluations not only in the environmental field but in other fields as well. This is the 122nd volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Evaluation, an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Publisher : Unknown Page : 1328 pages File Size : 43,8 Mb Release : 1996 Category : United States ISBN : SRLF:AA0007224900
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 1997: Environmental Protection Agency by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Pdf
National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 369 pages File Size : 42,6 Mb Release : 2002-07-13 Category : Science ISBN : 9780309084222
New Tools for Environmental Protection by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Pdf
Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the quick fixes have been achieved and the main sources of pollution are shifting from large "point sources" to more diffuse sources that are more difficult and expensive to regulate. The political climate has also changed in the United States since the 1970s in ways that provide impetus to seek alternatives to regulation. This book examines the potential of some of these "new tools" that emphasize education, information, and voluntary measures. Contributors summarize what we know about the effectiveness of these tools, both individually and in combination with regulatory and economic policy instruments. They also extract practical lessons from this knowledge and consider what is needed to make these tools more effective. The book will be of interest to environmental policy practitioners and to researchers and students concerned with applying social and behavioral sciences knowledge to improve environmental quality.
The Integration Imperative by Michael P. Gillingham,Greg R. Halseth,Chris J. Johnson,Margot W. Parkes Pdf
The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative – proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community and health issues. Informed by the editors’ experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, we envision this book as appealing to a wide range of researchers, educators and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for and interest in integrative approaches.
Community-based Ecosystem Monitoring in British Columbia by Patrick Yarnell,Don Gayton,FORREX. Pdf
Patrick Yarnell, an environmental planning and management consultant from Vancouver, had the right combination of knowledge and expertise for the project, and was contracted in the fall of 2001 to research and write a preliminary report to submit to the Board. [...] To successfully engage the public, a government must understand the motivations of volunteers; to provide quality data, volunteers must understand the requirements of a structured monitoring program; and, to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, an extension organization must understand the relationships and gaps between the needs of decision makers, NGOs, and volunteers. [...] In their study of the participation of public stewardship and advocacy groups in the protection of fish habitat, Rosenau and Angelo (2001) profiled three groups: the Alouette River Management Society (ARMS), the Pitt River and Area Watershed Network (PRAWN), and the Burnaby Lake System Project (BLSP). [...] The Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment Network and the Canadian Nature Federation have similar partnerships and programs for WormWatch (with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) and IceWatch (with the Meteorological Service of Canada and Laval University). [...] The CDC maintains a Biological and Conservation Data System of occurrence records, and produces reports of the occurrence and rarity (global and provincial) of species.
