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The Practice and Potential of Ecosystem-based ManagementThe Practice and Potential of
Ecosystem-based Management
Christine Feurt, Ph.D. Coordinator, Coastal Training Program Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve Director, Center for Sustainable Communities University of New England
Recognizing Ecosystem-based Management
Ecosystem ManagementMeffe et al., 2002
1. Retain, restore and sustain ecosystem integrity
2. Make the places we live, work and play noticeably better today and in the future.
3. Based upon a collaboratively developed vision of desired future outcomes that integrates ecological, socioeconomic and institutional perspectives
4. Applied within a geographic framework defined primarily by natural ecological boundaries.
Overview of Today’s Presentations
Watershed Management, Land Use Regulations, and Headwater Stream Conservation Steve Burns
Coastal Resiliency, Science and Community Planning for Sea Level Rise and the Perfect Storm Pete Slovinsky
Community Viz and Municipal Conservation Planning Judy Colby-George
Overview of Today’s Presentations
Beginning with Habitat: Challenges and Tools for Statewide Biodiversity Conservation Bethany Adkins
A Model for Science, Stewardship and Adaptive Management in Taunton Bay
John Sowles Collaborative Learning for Stakeholder
Engagement-Social Science and Ecosystem Management Chris Feurt
Elements of Ecosystem ManagementWith a Focus on Land Use
A collaboratively developed vision of desired future outcomes
Indicators of success and a mechanism for tracking progress
Interdisciplinary science as a measure of ecosystem sustainability
Identification and engagement of stakeholders
Place – a workable geographic boundary
Collaborative Learning for Stakeholder Engagement:
Social Science and Ecosystem Management
ChallengesOvercoming barriers to: Watershed Management Plan
implementation Science application to policy/management Adoption of best management
practices
1. Retain, restore and sustain ecosystem integrity
2. Make the places we live, work and play noticeably better today and in the future.
3. Based upon a collaboratively developed vision of desired future outcomes that integrates ecological, socioeconomic and institutional perspectives
4. Applied within a geographic framework defined primarily by natural ecological boundaries.
Ecosystem Management and Land Use
Applying Social Science Tools
The Collaborative Learning BridgeA social science tool for Ecosystem Management
Collaborative Learning
StakeholderAnalysis
Wells NERR Science ProductsWater Quality DataWatershed Surveys
Watershed Management Plans
Management & Policy Land Use
Watershed ManagementApplication of BMPs
PerceptualBarriers
DisciplinaryBarriers
InstitutionalBarriers
InstitutionalAnalysis
CulturalAnalysis
Working Through Environmental ConflictThe Collaborative Learning Approach By Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker (2001)
“A framework and set of techniques intended for multiparty decision situations…
A means of designing and implementing a series of events to promote:
Creative thought, Constructive debate and the Effective implementation of
proposals that the stakeholders generate.”
Theoretical Grounding: Systems, Conflict, Adult Learning
Progress not Consensus
Knowledge of Stakeholder Values, Attitudes and Beliefs
Applied to Collaborative Learning Model
WatershedManagement
Assessment
{Training inCL Skills}
ImplementationAnd Facilitation
Evaluation
Adapted from Daniels and Walker, 2001
Design
ASSESSMENT: Wells NERR Coastal Training Program
Water isThreatened
Coastal Trainers
ProvideScience-based
Knowledge
Municipal Decisions Contribute to Threats to Water
MunicipalActions with
Outcomes forProtecting
Water
Public WorksCode Officer Planning Board
?
Research Question Linking Multiple Disciplines to EM
Strategic Tools : Theory & Practice
Stakeholder AnalysisWhat are the perspectives and values of water, its management and pollution, used by stakeholders in municipal decision-making?
Cultural Anthropology
Discourse Analysis
Ethnographic InterviewsParticipant ObservationCultural Models Theory
Grounded Theory:Constant Comparison Method
Institutional AnalysisHow can knowledge of the perspectives and values of stakeholders be used to improve ecosystem management?
Action Research
Instructional Systems Design
Environmental Communication
Logic Model/ Program PlanningADDIE Process
Collaborative LearningConflict TheoryAdult Learning TheorySystems Theory(+ Diffusion of Innovations) (+ Community Based Social Marketing)
Understanding Stakeholder Perspectives and Values
Why is water important?
What are threats to water?
What can be done to protect water?
Nature Produces Water, the
Source of Life
Stakeholder Values
Water is a Resourceto Use and
Manage
Perceptions of Threats to Water’s Value
Water isThreatened
ChemicalLawn Chemicals, Fertilizer, Petroleum/Car byproducts, Nutrients, N and Ph, Ammonia & Chlorine from sewage treatment plant (STP), Pesticides, Mercury, Atmospheric pollutants, Asphalt MTBE, Arsenic, Road salt, Sand & deicing chemicals
BiologicalHuman sewage, Pet WasteRed Tide, Domestic Livestock Waste, Wildlife Waste, E. Coli
PhysicalSediment (silt & soil), Trash,Amount and force of flowing water, Temperature
Threats
Beach Closures
PropertyValues
FishKills
Loss isExperienced
7 Ways of KnowingA Knowledge Resource for Collaborative Learning
Governance(GOV)
Science(SCI)
Local(LOC)
Ecological(ECO)
EducationalPractices
(EDU)
Technological(TEC)
Land Use(LAN)
Knowledge
Combined Ways of Knowing
Town Planner
Scientist
EcologicalKnowledge
Public Works Director
EducationalPractices
Knowledge
ScienceKnowledge
LocalKnowledge
GovernanceKnowledge
Land UseKnowledge
Land UseKnowledge
TechnologicalKnowledge
LocalKnowledge
DESIGNEngaging the Kaleidoscope of Expertise
Municipal Officials as a Resource not a Receptacle
ECO
Water isThreatened Water is Valued
SCI
LAN
TEC
GOVEDU
LOC
Planning& Land Use
LandConservation
Drinking H2O
Research & Monitoring
Education &Outreach
Regs &Enforcement
Engineering &Public Safety
Citizen Stewardship
Water isProtected
Protecting our Children’s Water Implementing the Branch Brook Watershed Management Plan
2005 - 2025
IMPLEMENTATION & FACILITATION
Assemble and activate the kaleidoscope of expertise
Shared missions - Watershed Management Plan linked to Comprehensive Plans
Elected official approval
Municipal/State/Federal, NGO, water districts
An experiment for a summer
Meetings, field trips, breakfast at the Cockpit Café
Identify shared values of water and perceptions of threats as fuel for
collaboration
Make conflicts explicit through dialogue and deliberation
Sanford Regional Airport:Where water quality meets homeland security
Property rights vs….
…Property ResponsibilitiesEcosystem Services and Green Infrastructure
Sustaining the Commons
EVALUATION:
Putting a face and a place on ecosystem management
Recognize ecosystem management at local scale Share Lessons in the Landscape• Place-based opportunities for dialogue &
deliberation• Track outcomes & progress
Evaluation to Assessment
Action Research Multi-media Approach Progress on watershed action items Stakeholder consensus to continue Stakeholder survey Stakeholder interviews Elected official consensus to continue Grant funding for group generated
projects
Christine Feurt 207.646.1555 x111cfeurt@wellsnerr.org
Collaborative Learning Guide November 2008
EBM Tools Training Wells NERR Nov 19 & 20
CICEET Project Explorer – Feurt/Final Report December 2008http://www.ciceet.unh.edu/
Elements of Ecosystem ManagementWith a Focus on Land Use
A collaboratively developed vision of desired future outcomes
Indicators of success and a mechanism for tracking progress
Interdisciplinary science as a measure of ecosystem sustainability
Identification and engagement of stakeholders
Place – a workable geographic boundary
Selected ReferencesBernard, H. ed. 1998. Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Altamira Press.Daniels, S. and G. Walker. 2001. Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach. Westport, CT: PraegerFeurt, C. 2007. Protecting Our Children’s Water, Using Cultural Models to Frame and Implement Ecosystem Based Management. Ph.D. Dissertation, Antioch University New England. Keene, New Hampshire.Glaser, B. and A. Strauss. 1967. The Discovery of Grounded Theory. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.Greenwood, D and Levin, M. 1998. Introduction to Action Research, Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Gunderson, L. and C. Holling, eds. 2001. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.Holland, D. and N. Quinn. 1987. Cultural Models in Language and Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Lubchenco, J. 1998. Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science 279: 491-497.Kempton, W., J. Boster and J. Hartley. 1995. Environmental Values in American Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Krum, C. and C. Feurt. 2002. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Coastal Training Program: Market Analysis and Needs Assessment. Wells NERR: Wells, ME.Lee, K. 1993. Compass and Gyroscope. Integrating science and politics for the environment. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.Meffe, G., L. Nielsen, R. Knight, D. Schenborn. 2002. Ecosystem Management, Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press.NRC. 2005. Decision Making for the Environment. DC: National Academies Press.Paolisso, M. 2002. Blue crabs and controversy on the Chesapeake Bay: A cultural model for understanding watermen’s reasoning about blue crab management. Human Organization 61 (3): 226-239.Quinn, N. ed. 2005. Finding Culture in Talk, A Collection of Methods. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Salafsky, N.,et al., 2001. Adaptive Management: A Tool For Conservation Practitioners. Available at www.fosonline.orgWeiss, R. S. 1994. Learning from Strangers, The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: The Free Press.
PROCESSNEPA Analysis
Agency Research Programs
Process-oriented, Iterative Social Assessment
Strategic Perspectives Analysis
Adaptive Management
PROCESSNEPA Analysis
Agency Research Programs
Process-oriented, Iterative Social Assessment
Strategic Perspectives Analysis
Adaptive Management
DATAPublic Reactions
Position Statements
Values and Beliefs
IncompleteBehavioral Data
Partial Stakeholder Identification
DATADemography
Behavioral Systems
Conceptual Systems
Spatial and Temporal Variability
Human Ecological and Social Adaptations
PROCESSPublic Involvement
Conflict Management
Collaborative Learning
LocalDecision-making Partnerships
Co-management
PROCESSPublic Involvement
Conflict Management
Collaborative Learning
LocalDecision-making Partnerships
Co-management
PUBLIC INVOLVEMENTPUBLIC INVOLVEMENTSOCIAL ANALYSISSOCIAL ANALYSIS
SOCIAL LEARNINGSOCIAL LEARNING
A Framework for Social Science Contributions to Ecosystem Management
(adapted from Endter-Wada, et.al., 1998 p. 893)