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Evaluating Collaborative Natural ResourceManagement
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In this article, we look at the evolving collaborative natural resource management movement in the United States and discuss current calls to evaluate it. We then explore approaches researchers have used to evaluate both specific efforts and the broader movement. Evaluative criteria developed thus far by several researchers show commonalities as well as differences. We argue that evaluation approaches will necessarily vary with the evaluation's intent, the type of collaborative effort being evaluated, and the values of the evaluator. Evaluators need to consider and make explicit their standards for comparison, criteria, and methods in order to clarify the nature of an evaluation and facilitate the synthesis of findings.
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“Because such actions often take place over a long period of time and often by individual partners or external agents subject to other forces outside the CGR, it can be difficult to trace and attribute influence or causation to the CGR (Conley and Moote 2003;Emerson et al. 2003;Koontz and Thomas 2006).”
From An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance (2012) · cites this paper as Conley and Moote 2003
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- Authors
- CONLEY, A., & MOOTE, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Northern Arizona University (US)
- Venue
- Society & Natural Resources
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2003-05
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 371-386
- ISSN
- 0894-1920 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-0723
- OpenAlex
- W2157693829
- Cited by
- 505
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Society & Natural Resources (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Keywords
- collaborative natural resource management, evaluation approaches, evaluation criteria, evaluation standards, collaborative governance
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