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DOING MORE WITH LESS: Reaching Resilience Goals in the Northeast with Collaboration through Networks Jill Weiss Environmental Studies PhD Candidate, Antioch University New England Adjunct Faculty, Keene State College [email protected] . Monday, May 19, 2014 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DOING MORE WITH LESS:Reaching Resilience Goals in the Northeast with Collaboration through Networks
Jill Weiss Environmental Studies PhD Candidate, Antioch University New EnglandAdjunct Faculty, Keene State College
Monday, May 19, 2014 Local Solutions: NE Climate Change Preparedness Conference
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Challenges
Networks: type, value and application
Collaboration in practice
How to measure?
How to sustain?
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Wicked Problems
Those looking at the problem cannot fully grasp its size and shape
Those trying to solve the problem are part of the problem
We may not have the right tools/ tools may not yet exist
Problem is unique/ never happened before – so looking to the past in ineffective.
Adapted from Rittel & Webber 1973
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Trends that create Barriers to Implementation
Changing demographics Political polarization Shift in funding from government to private
foundations; grants 1-2 years per Small grants to individual orgs less available Government agencies working with new restrictions Smaller staff/ No staff Workload and range
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Addressing Barriers
For example, if it is desirable to apply:•Vulnerability Assessments•Structured Decision-Making•Or other initiative where the participation of multiple stakeholders are required
• Purposeful Networks
• Deliberate Collaboration
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Purposeful Networks
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Types of Networks and examples
Citizen Science Ecological Stewardship Public/ Private partnerships Civic or municipal networks By Megaregion By Eco/ Bio Region [resource] Conservation Networks
Started in the Great Lakes region – expanded to NE
recently.
Alpine Stewardship in the Northeast; GMC,
AMC, MERELower CT River Council Of Governments
Urban Agglomeration; as cited by America 2050 and the Regional Plan
Association
Chesapeake Bay: watershed, food shed, fisheries,
ecological education and restoration, economic
development
Kennebec Woodland Partnership, ME;
Cons. Agencies, Water agencies, Land Trusts, land owners, Forestry interests
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Conservation Networks
Conservation networks (CNs) are an association of individuals that cooperatively manage a resource or meet conservation goals.
They are valuable because of their on the ground experience, shared expertise and interdisciplinary nature.
(Batterbury, 2003; Forman & Godron, 1986; Lankford, 1997; Svendsen & Campbell, 2008)
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Value-added Knowledge
CNs add value to knowledge by sharing among those with different skill sets, across content boundaries, physical barriers, and hierarchical levels.
Innovation occurs as they pass knowledge along.
(Briske, 2012; McEathron, 2008; Reagans & McEvily, 2003; Rickenback, 2011; Zander & Kogut, 1995)
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Purposeful Network Example: RCPs
Regional Conservation Partnerships Land trusts, local governments,
landowners and localized conservation action groups.
They work together on management and conservation status of land in a particular region.
The geographic range of each RCP varies in size from a few hundred to half a million acres.
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Example: RCPs
Both a physical and psychological presence for policymakers and the public
Coordinate for large parcel projects Outright buys, Easements
Coordinate and Leverage funds Government & Foundation grants
Match strengths with tasks Non compete
Formal agreements (MOUs), informal agreements Many function within a socio-professional network
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Socio-professional networks
• As financial capital becomes more rare, social capital becomes more important
• Social Capital “refers to the collective value of social networks and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other.” Putnam 2000
• Networks can share and sort an overload of information
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Networks - other notes
Not enough just to be networked Information sharing should be deliberate and
relevant Invest in boundary spanners Network activity may ebb and flow over the life of an
initiative Be okay with network transformation or fade out How best to collaborate in networks?
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Deliberate Collaboration
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Collaboration
Happens between individuals, not organizations However, must be accepted as part of
organizational culture Requires trust and high quality sharing
Knowledge Transfer Communication Infrastructure
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Knowledge Transfer and Communication Infrastructure
Adapted from Perera et al. 2007
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Conditions for Collaboration
Shared Mission and Values Real knowledge and expertise for
task Goals, roles, timelines and
deliverables clearly defined Face to face meetings What about formal agreements?
MOUs?
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Assessment and Sustainability
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Assessment and Sustainability
How do we avoid collaboration fatigue and “organizational entropy”?
Recognize and resolve conflicts quickly
Get real about Resources and/or Financial support of your partners and the network as a whole
Be okay with dissolution
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Assessment and Sustainability
How do we know collaboration or our networks are working?
Results – Was the goal met? Catalog progress statistically and visually Seek stakeholders outside the networks to
gain their view
Consider using interdisciplinary tools to optimize the effort
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Connecting: SNA techniques in Sci-metrics
Mapping relationships to identify potential collaborators
from Boyack, 2009
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Measuring: Linking Activities with Goals
Use indices to measure network and collaboration efficacy and correlate with other numbers: Land owners served, acres conserved, etc.
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Tools exist in other disciplines and sectors
Social Network Analysis Science of Team Science & Scientometrics Education Hospital Administration Business and industry Conservation Psychology
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Thank you
Jill Weiss Environmental Studies PhD Candidate, Antioch University New England
Adjunct Faculty, Keene State College