Participatory monitoring and evaluation to aid investment in natural resource manager capacity at a range of scales

Brown, PR; Jacobs, B; Leith, P

Participatory monitoring and evaluation to aid investment in natural resource manager capacity at a range of scales

Brown, PR Jacobs, B

Leith, P

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2012, 184 (12), pp. 7207 - 7220
Issue Date:: 2012-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Brown, PR	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Jacobs, B https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3147-341X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Leith, P	en_US
dc.date.available	2011-12-08	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2012, 184 (12), pp. 7207 - 7220	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0167-6369	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115284
dc.description.abstract	Natural resource (NR) outcomes at catchment scale rely heavily on the adoption of sustainable practices by private NR managers because they control the bulk of the NR assets. Public funds are invested in capacity building of private landholders to encourage adoption of more sustainable natural resource management (NRM) practices. However, prioritisation of NRM funding programmes has often been top-down with limited understanding of the multiple dimensions of landholder capacity leading to a failure to address the underlying capacity constraints of local communities. We argue that welldesigned participatory monitoring and evaluation of landholder capacity can provide a mechanism to codify the tacit knowledge of landholders about the social- ecological systems in which they are embedded. This process enables tacit knowledge to be used by regional NRM bodies and government agencies to guide NRM investment in the Australian state of New South Wales. This paper details the collective actions to remove constraints to improved NRM that were identified by discrete groups of landholders through this process. The actions spanned geographical and temporal scales, and responsibility for them ranged across levels of governance. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10661-011-2491-y	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Environmental Sciences	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Conservation of Natural Resources	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Ecosystem	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Environmental Monitoring	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Investments	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	New South Wales	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Community Participation	en_US
dc.title	Participatory monitoring and evaluation to aid investment in natural resource manager capacity at a range of scales	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	12	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	184	en_US
utslib.for	1605 Policy and Administration	en_US
utslib.for	120504 Land Use and Environmental Planning	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - ISF - Institute for Sustainable Futures
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.issue	12	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	184	en_US

Abstract:

Natural resource (NR) outcomes at catchment scale rely heavily on the adoption of sustainable practices by private NR managers because they control the bulk of the NR assets. Public funds are invested in capacity building of private landholders to encourage adoption of more sustainable natural resource management (NRM) practices. However, prioritisation of NRM funding programmes has often been top-down with limited understanding of the multiple dimensions of landholder capacity leading to a failure to address the underlying capacity constraints of local communities. We argue that welldesigned participatory monitoring and evaluation of landholder capacity can provide a mechanism to codify the tacit knowledge of landholders about the social- ecological systems in which they are embedded. This process enables tacit knowledge to be used by regional NRM bodies and government agencies to guide NRM investment in the Australian state of New South Wales. This paper details the collective actions to remove constraints to improved NRM that were identified by discrete groups of landholders through this process. The actions spanned geographical and temporal scales, and responsibility for them ranged across levels of governance. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.

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