Environmental Program Evaluation

EPE TIG Week: Johanna Morariu on an Evaluation Approach for an Environmental Think Tank & Advocacy Organization

Hi! I’m Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) is an evaluation consulting firm that provides evaluation consulting services to nonprofits and funders, and works to build the sector’s evaluation capacity. I lead Innovation Network’s environmental evaluation work, with a strong concentration on environmental advocacy evaluation. A few months ago we began …

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EPE TIG Week: Nick Salafsky on Miradi Adaptive Management Software for Conservation Projects

My name is Nick Salafsky and I am Co-Director and Co-Founder of Foundations of Success, a nonprofit organization committed to working with practitioners to learn how to do conservation better through the process of adaptive management. My colleagues and I have spent the past two decades helping biodiversity conservation project teams design theories of change …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on Fuzzy Logic Models – Embracing and Navigating Complexity

My name is Matt Keene; I work with the Environmental Protection Agency and coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network. Chris Metzner (freelance graphic designer and data visualization artist) and Jeff Wasbes (independent evaluation consultant with ResearchWorks, Inc.) helped enormously with this post. In 2009 Oregon became the first state to enact a law requiring paint manufacturers …

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Arlene Hopkins on Ecological Restoration

I am Arlene Hopkins, an educator and architect, and I provide consulting services in evaluation. Extending my work beyond education, libraries, land use and facilities, I am interested in standards, metrics and tools applied to environmental sustainability programs and projects.   Recently I have been focusing on evaluation standards, metrics and practices within the emerging subfield …

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Duncan Meyers on GIS and Geocoding

Greetings fellow AEA365 blog readers. My name is Duncan Meyers and I am a graduate student at the University of South Carolina in the Clinical/Community Psychology program. I have a strong interest in evaluation and have been an evaluator for community-based mental health services, an after-school obesity prevention program, and a project aimed at increasing …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on The Environmental Evaluators Network

My name is Matt Keene and I work with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Evaluation Support Division, where I help to coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN). The purpose of the EEN is to advance the field of environmental evaluation through more systematic and collective learning. The EEN’s 5th annual Forum will be held in Washington …

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EPE Week: Karlyn Eckman on Using the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Study Method

My name is Karlyn Eckman. I’m a researcher at the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center, and also a long-time United Nations consultant. I’d like to share an evaluation tool that we’ve borrowed from our colleagues in public health and psychology. The knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) study method has been used for decades in …

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EPE Week: Andy Rowe on Getting the Evaluand Right

This is Andy Rowe. I am an independent consultant operating from the US in South Carolina and Canada from Hilton Beach Ontario. My first evaluation of a resource related program was an evaluation of the Newfoundland Bait Service in 1985. Since then I have undertaken evaluations in many social and natural settings and on all …

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EPE Week: Jane Peters on Engagement in the Field of Energy Evaluation

My name is Jane Peters, and I am the owner of a 19 person firm in Portland Oregon that conducts process and market evaluations of energy efficiency, renewable energy program and other resource conserving programs. I am a 20-year member of AEA and a board member of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), which …

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EPE Week: Juan Paulo Ramírez on GIS Resources

My name is Juan Paulo Ramírez and I am a research specialist with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. I use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for project evaluations which have included a broad variety of applications both in the social and physical sciences. Recently a lot of interest has been concentrated on geographic visualization, …

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