Environmental Program Evaluation

Hello, I am Marcie Weinandt and have been working with Minnesota rural and agricultural communities my entire career, as an elected official, program manager and policy developer.  My state, “The Land of 10,000 Lakes” has had to face a hard truth: water quality in Minnesota is being threatened by agricultural field runoff.  My current work …

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My name is Karlyn Eckman and I research the human dimensions of natural resources programs in Minnesota and also in developing countries.  While working in Somalia in the 1980s I learned to use the KAP (knowledge, attitudes and practices) study method to evaluate project outcomes. Since 2006 our University of Minnesota team has conducted about …

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Hi, I’m Rupu Gupta, Conservation Psychologist, Co-Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group, and Researcher at NewKnowledge.org, a research and evaluation think tank. For the past five years, I have evaluated the EECapacity project, supported by a cooperative agreement between Cornell University and the US Environmental Protection Agency. It aimed to expand the …

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Hi, I’m Katherine Dawes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. I’m currently on a year-long assignment as a Visiting Scholar at The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (find me at kdawes [at] gwu [dot] edu). Earth Day 2016 theme is “Trees for the Earth. Let’s get planting.” Everyone knows …

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Hi, I’m Rupu Gupta, Co-Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group and Researcher at NewKnowledge.org, a research and evaluation think tank.  Earth Week brings with it an ideal time to critically consider the potential of environmental education programs to create opportunities for professionals to protect the planet for a living! Rad Resource: I …

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Hi! I’m Shari Grossarth from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Evaluation Support Division. I’m part of a team at EPA that’s trying out a knowledge synthesis approach to inform our work to advance sustainable purchasing in the federal government and other large institutions. The project is still underway, but I’ll share a bit about it …

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I’m John Fraser, a conservation psychologist and President & CEO of the non-profit think tank, NewKnowledge.org.  Our research on climate change has taken a very interesting direction in the past few years. For generations, we’ve focused on individual sustainability behaviors as a gateway to more conservation action. Unfortunately, that’s turning out not to be true.  …

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We’re Matt Keene and Cameron Norman, from the Silwood Group, a transdisciplinary group of evaluators, systems scientists and conservation leaders. We’re working to address challenges at the nexus of social and ecological systems where complex situations are common, uncertainty is high and predictability is low. Though we can’t be certain of the extent, we are …

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My name is Michael Quinn Patton. I am an independent evaluation consultant based in Minnesota but working worldwide.  As part of Earth Week, a worldwide perspective on global systems change seems especially appropriate. I have taught in the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) every year since its inception in 2000.  I conducted the …

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