Leadership
Closing the Feedback Loop: Evaluation and Adaptation in Collaborative Resource Management
Type of media:
Book
This sourcebook has two purposes. The first is to provide a selection of evaluation tools and change mechanisms for collaborative groups to consider and use. The second is tostimulate discussion of evaluation and adaptation in collaborative resource management. Collaborative resource management and adaptive management are not new concepts, but experience has not caught up to theory, and there is much to learn from the rapidly evolving efforts underway.
Project Director (Madison Valley Ranchland Group, Oregon)
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Job Madison Valley Ranchlands Group has an opening for a project director. Contact MVRG at mvranch@3rivers.net Applications close on May 30. Call John Crumley with any questions - 406 682 7364 or 406 581 5602
Check out their website here: http://www.madisonvalleyranchlands.org/
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Alaina Pomeroy
Program Manager
Sustainable Northwest
813 SW Alder, Suite 500
Portland, OR 97205
Contact Information:
<p>Alaina Pomeroy Program Manager Sustainable Northwest 813 SW Alder, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97205 wk. (503) 221-6911 x109 cell (971) 222-9583</p>
Application Deadline:
May 30, 2013 Forest Voices: Storytelling for Action in the Coffee Lands of Indonesia
Type:
Academic Program
Contact Information:
<p> mary@forestvoices.org</p> Clearwater Basin Collabortive
Type:
Organization This organization is a cooperative advisory-making body orgazized to resolve land management conflices in the Clearwater Basin, Idaho. This Basin is part of the largest complex of public lands in the continental United States. People from all backgrounds and points of view agree that the forests, mountains and streams here are priceless and necessary to economic, social and ecological well-being.
Farmers of the Caribbean: Implementing Sustainable Farming Practices in Trinidad's Northern Ranges
Type of media:
Report In the hillsides of Trinidad’s Northern Range, smallholder subsistence farming systems dominate the landscape. Pushed to this frontier by escalating pressure on low-lying agriculture lands from more urban development and a rising population, farmers continue to rely on short-term crops on the steep slopes there.
Incentivising collaborative conservation: Lessons from existing environmental Stewardship Scheme options
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Article Agri-environment schemes (AESs) in England typically address environmental management at the farm-and field-scales, but there is increasing evidence that incorporating the landscape-scale would increase scheme effectiveness.
Project-Level Insights for Landscape Level PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services)
Type of media:
Article Over the last 10 years, there has been a significant increase in private and public sector interest to explore payments for ecosystem services (PES), in order to assign value to ecosystem services, and thus promote better land use practices. We recently investigated how PES schemes are faring in meeting the goals of safeguarding ecosystem services, while also benefiting local livelihoods.
Yale Conservation Finance Camp Announcement (2013)
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Training The 7th annual Yale Conservation Finance Boot Camp will be held at Yale University on Monday, June 17 through Friday, June 21, 2013. This advanced learning opportunity will prepare conservation practitioners and board members, foundation leaders, private investors, and graduate students to utilize innovative conservation finance strategies and to share best practices.
Contact Information:
<p><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Leigh Whelpton, </span></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Program Manager, Conservation Finance Network, </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Island Press #(202)232-7933, x 20.</span></p>
<p> </p> Local communities unite to protect Mount Diwata Range IBA
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Article The essence of organizing the local community as a Site Support Group in Mount Diwata Range Important Biodiversity Area (IBA) for natural resource protection and conservation aims to improve the living condition of the forest-dependent families in the IBA by engaging themselves into forest-friendly livelihoods through linkage and networking building that brings to the realm of equal opportunities both for men and women to access natural resources for biodiversity conservation
