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The Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card
...he Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card ... On July 21, 2017, the Guanabara Bay Repo...iro , Brazil . This is the first ecosystem health report card in Brazil, and the second report card we hav...
The Second Verde River Report Card Workshop
...requires thriving communities of people who value the river in multifaceted ways. This is one of the more interesting report cards we have ever worked on due the incredible engagement we are experiencing with stakeholders and their determination to...
The Verde River Workshop
...iver report card project has come a long way, over a relatively short time period. Stakeholder-driven, multi-sectoral report cards typically take 18-24 months to complete in our experience. The Verde River report card project is not even one year o...
This is What Science Stands For: Exhibiting at AGU Fall Meeting 2018
...tiative aims to empower stakeholders around the world in managing their fresh water resources by developing and using report cards. Our Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards received lots of attention, as did the “Get the Grad...
To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action
...nterest in a project or entity, or would be affected by a particular action or policy – and the role of environmental report cards in guiding stakeholder decisions. Stakeholder engagement can be described as a process of maturity: each step of the...
Turning the report card spotlight back on ourselves: The first Integration and Application Network report card
...Integration and Application Network (IAN) team has been traveling the globe to help various partners develop rigorous report cards. When we starting working with Tina Bishop and Peter Tuddenham from the College of Exploration to develop an evaluati...
Twas the Weeks Before Christmas: Saying Goodbye to Nick DiPasquale
...nto Bay restoration. Furthermore, Nick leaves the Chesapeake Bay Program during the time when the last several annual report cards are reporting improving ecosystem health in the Chesapeake Bay. Clearly the Chesapeake Bay has benefited from Nick Di...
UMCES active in the 2016 River Symposium in Delhi, India
... I had a chance to attend, and to present a couple of talks related to the partnership we have with WWF for the Basin Report Cards Initiative . The highlight for me was the special session we co-hosted with WWF to demonstrate the Report Card Game o...
Understanding the dynamics and interdependencies of socio-ecological systems through models
...learning. I believe ABM would be useful after the report card process in making recommendations on how to...
Using Poetry to Deliver an “Ignite” Style Scientific Presentation
...nd recite a stanza as each slide advanced. My talk was titled “Developing a best practices model for ecosystem health report cards.” Heath’s talk was directly after mine, and he provided more details about how we have evolved our report card proces...
Using the Collaborative Learning framework to improve IAN’s report card development process and outcome
...ed future outcomes that integrates ecological, social, economic, cultural and organizational perspectives. Similarly, report cards are being used to bring together decision-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders, and citizens to develop a share...
Visit with Grand River Conservation Authority
...ation efforts by the GRCA. Of the 38 conservation authorities of Southern Ontario, only 9 are not currently producing report cards, including the Grand. We discussed the development of environmental report cards in both Australia and Chesapeake Bay...
We are Trailblazers: The Chesapeake Bay Program in 2019
...he scientifically rigorous Chesapeake Bay Program report card produced by the University of Maryland Cente...ience is being emulated globally, but an expanded report card effort to include ecological, social and eco...
Welcome to Rio! The Guanabara Bay first stakeholder workshop
...velopment Bank , are working to develop the first report card for Guanabara Bay . The view of Rio de Janei...ll Dennison , Dave Nemazie , and I held the first report card stakeholder workshop at INEA (Instituto Esta...
What are these data trying to tell us?
...ed the statistical tools of data analysis that scientists use to get answers to simple, direct questions. Environment report cards are a tool for assembling this information to answer more complex questions. Image Credit: flickr Using data to answe...
What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!
...ing and Socio-ecological Network Analysis. Different approaches for Raising the Grade. Image by Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen Report cards traditionally include recommendations that the public, policy makers and government can do to help improve ecosystem...
What’s the Story in Your Report Card?
...fe experiences come together to share their love of watching men in tights save the world. In a not-so-different way, report cards use a mix of pictures and text to tell the story of a catchment (watershed); report cards bring different stakeholder...
When herding cats it helps to have a map
...ense, the map became the manifestation of a metaphor the IAN team often uses. To define the role of the environmental report cards, we ask people to imagine all the information available about a place gathered into a pyramid . The broad base of the...
Within Our Reach provides insights into engaging communities and restoration of the Willamette River
...has been working with MMT for several years now, beginning with Bill Dennison providing a talk about ecosystem health report cards at the conference in 2012. Bill and I met with Pam Wiley in Brisbane, Australia in 2013, where she was accepting the...
WWF and UMCES Retreat 24-25 May 2017
...ding a projected 90% growth in hydropower. Image credit: the Power of Rivers, A Business Case Climate Change in Basin Report Cards The river report card idea has been successful at measuring current status, and we have been able to discuss climate...

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