"Measures of Success" is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and development projects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation and development practitioners use principles of adaptive management to test assumptions about their projects and learn from the results.The book presents a systematic approach to improving the focus, effectiveness, and efficiency of projects, with specific guidelines and advice on: designing a realistic conceptual framework based on local site conditions developing clearly defined goals, objectives, and activities creating a monitoring plan that can be used to assess whether goals and objectives are being met integrating social and biological science techniques to collect the most relevant and useful data in the most cost-effective way using the information obtained through the monitoring plan to modify the project and learn from the resultThe text is developed in eight chapters that follow the structure of a planning process from conception to completion, with the chapters linked by four scenarios that serve as teaching case studies throughout the book. Examples from these scenarios illustrate the processes and tools discussed, and each scenario case study is presented in its entirety in an appendix to the volume. The approach has been developed and field tested by practitioners working in many different projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and their experience and input ensure that the guide is both practical and useful."Measures of Success" is the only work of its kindcurrently available, and represents an invaluable resource for field-based practitioners, project managers, and local community leaders, as well as for international NGO staff, college and university teachers and students, researchers, and government officials.
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- Expecting a book funded by the Biodiversity Support Program to be as dry as most of the information that comes from this Beltway consortium, I was surprised by this book. Clearly designed, imaginatively illustrated, the book provides a clear conceptual model of what could go right with conservation and development. Designed as a practical hands-on guide, it succeeds. My only complaint is the authors continued ignorance of the internet can be used. Too bad they couldn't push the case for more creative information sharing.
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Measures of Success is structured around four scenarios that show the many challenges of managing conservation and development projects around the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agricultural outreach officer, park chief warden, community outreach sessions, local stakeholder participation, mangrove harvesting, rattan collectors, hunting operators, local site assessment, mangrove firewood, sustainable harvest yields, enterprise specialist, monitoring team members, community outreach coordinator, sustainable agriculture techniques, habitat parcels, park inspectors, taboo periods, viewing guidelines, matrix ranking, savannah ecosystems, local chapter members, target condition, fishing violations, hunting restrictions, monitoring design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Process Hint, Tropical Forest Scenario, Everson Watershed, Savannah Scenario, Karimara National Park, Wetlands Scenario, Indah Biosphere Reserve, New York, Rapid Appraisal, Coastal Scenario, Project Plan, Potential Method, Sage Publications, Bocoro Bay, Questions Raised, Data Range, Microsoft Excel, Newbury Park, Project Assistant, Umoja Village, United Kingdom, Global Positioning System, Location Carcass, None Partial Full Total Poor, Use Results New!
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Measures of Success is structured around four scenarios that show the many challenges of managing conservation and development projects around the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agricultural outreach officer, park chief warden, community outreach sessions, local stakeholder participation, mangrove harvesting, rattan collectors, hunting operators, local site assessment, mangrove firewood, sustainable harvest yields, enterprise specialist, monitoring team members, community outreach coordinator, sustainable agriculture techniques, habitat parcels, park inspectors, taboo periods, viewing guidelines, matrix ranking, savannah ecosystems, local chapter members, target condition, fishing violations, hunting restrictions, monitoring design Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Process Hint, Tropical Forest Scenario, Everson Watershed, Savannah Scenario, Karimara National Park, Wetlands Scenario, Indah Biosphere Reserve, New York, Rapid Appraisal, Coastal Scenario, Project Plan, Potential Method, Sage Publications, Bocoro Bay, Questions Raised, Data Range, Microsoft Excel, Newbury Park, Project Assistant, Umoja Village, United Kingdom, Global Positioning System, Location Carcass, None Partial Full Total Poor, Use Results New!
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- Fundamentals of Biostatistics (with CD-ROM) by Bernard Rosner on page 219
- Breaking The Impasse: Consensual Approaches To Resolving Public Disputes by Jeffrey Cruikshank on page 25
- Qualitative Data Analysis: A Sourcebook of New Methods by Matthew B. Miles on page 219
- Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods (Industrial Health & Safety) by David G. Kleinbaum on page 177
- Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher on page 25
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