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EPE TIG Week: Matt Keene and Cameron Norman on Praxis for Evaluation on Earth

4 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 18, 2016 April 9, 2016

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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EPE TIG Week: Michael Quinn Patton on Blue Marble Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 17, 2016 April 9, 2016

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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Rupu Gupta on Evaluating How Informal Learning Settings Engage the Public about the Environment

Hello, I am Rupu Gupta, Analyst at New Knowledge Organization Ltd. and Co-Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group. My evaluation work focuses on learning about the environment and conservation in informal settings. As we celebrate Earth Day, I would like to share some reflections on evaluating these experiences. Lessons Learned: Informal learning settings …

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EPE TIG Week: Lydia Lange on Celebrating Earth, Environment and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 25, 2014 April 18, 2014

Happy Earth Week from the EPE TIG! My name is Lydia Lange. I am the Co-Chair of the EPE TIG and an independent researcher/evaluator specializing in natural resource management and sustainability education. In honor of Earth Week, I want to share a bit about environmental evaluation and the privilege we have as a TIG to …

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EPE TIG Week: Anna Williams on A Welcome New Paradigm for Sustainable Development

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 24, 2014 April 18, 2014

Hello! My name is Anna Williams. I have worked on issues related to sustainable development as an evaluator, facilitator, and agent of change for 20+ years. The concept of sustainable development took hold 25 years ago, but several challenges have hampered interpretation and analysis of progress, starting with these: 1. The oft-cited 1987 Brundtland Commission …

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EPE TIG Week: Yvonne M. Watson on Buying Green Today to Save and Sustain Our Tomorrow

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 23, 2014 April 18, 2014

Hi everyone! I’m Yvonne M. Watson, an Evaluator in U.S. EPA’s Evaluation Support Division and Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group. As we celebrate Earth Week in April and prepare for the annual American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference in October, the theme of sustainability looms large. As I think about an area …

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EPE TIG Week: Andy Rowe on Cats and Climate Change

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 22, 2014 April 18, 2014

Andy Rowe here, I evaluate sustainable development and natural resource interventions. I am convinced evaluation is facing a key adapt or decline juncture. Connectivity is the mechanism enabling us to understand how interventions reach to the public interest and effects in the natural system. Our siloed governance approaches come from cost and accountability structures in …

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EPE TIG Week: Juha Uitto on Sustainability Evaluation and the Need to Keep an Eye on the Big Picture

5 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 21, 2014 April 18, 2014

Hi all! I’m Juha Uitto, Deputy Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). I’ve spent many years evaluating environment and development in international organizations, like UNDP and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). As we all know, evaluating sustainability is not easy or simple. Sustainability as a concept and construct …

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EPE TIG Week: Sara El Choufi on Thinking Globally: How to evaluate the effectiveness of aid to the environment on a global level

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 20, 2014 April 18, 2014

My name is Sara El Choufi and I wanted to share with you some of thoughts on evaluating the effectiveness aid to the environment. As evaluators, we tend to focus our work on programs and projects. We thoroughly evaluate a project, or a set of projects and draw out conclusion, best practices, lessons learned, etc. …

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Climate Ed Eval Week: John Baek on Online Collection of Climate Knowledge Assessment Items

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / December 13, 2013 December 1, 2013

Hi! This is John Baek and I am the Education Evaluator in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Education. NOAA is a member of the tri-agency climate change education collaboration with NASA and NSF. As a part of the tri-agency evaluation community, my colleague Susan Lynds (CIRES) and I identified a need …

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