Connecting human dimensions research to place-based collaboration through science delivery
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2012-01
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Clement, Jessica, speaker
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Connecting human dimensions research to on-the-ground applications is a subject for ongoing experimentation for social scientists. In this case data collected in the context of forest planning on the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming was used to create science delivery mechanisms, in turn aiding the initiation of place-based, targeted collaboration efforts or helping to redirect and re-energize existing but flagging collaborative efforts. These science delivery mechanisms also helped unearth additional areas requiring human dimension exploration. These efforts also appear to be energizing agency morale through greater understanding of data collection methods and therefore the relevance of the data to their work. This understanding may help to create greater connectivity between agency staff, their constituents and the landscape they are conserving. Jessica Clement has used CCC funds and USFS funds to create these science delivery mechanisms and to explore the use of previously collected social science data to place-based collaboration and will discuss in this presentation the approach taken and the results.
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Presented at the Spring 2012 Center for Collaborative Conservation (https://collaborativeconservation.org/) Seminar and Discussion Series, "Collaborative Conservation in Practice: Innovations in Communities Around the World", January 24, 2012, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. This series focused on the work that the CCC's Collaborative Conservation Fellows have been doing across the Western U.S. and around the world.
Jessica Clement works as Program Associate with the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute and as an independent consultant. She has conducted human dimensions in natural resources research in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana and has taught natural resource and human dimensions subjects at Colorado State University and elsewhere for the last twenty years. Previously Dr. Clement worked as Assistant Dean at Colorado Mountain College, and with various international corporations before that. She has degrees related to journalism, natural resource management, forest ecology in particular, and social science with a doctorate from Colorado State University. Jessica currently works predominantly in the fields of human dimensions research, collaborative governance and natural resource policy.
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Jessica Clement works as Program Associate with the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute and as an independent consultant. She has conducted human dimensions in natural resources research in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana and has taught natural resource and human dimensions subjects at Colorado State University and elsewhere for the last twenty years. Previously Dr. Clement worked as Assistant Dean at Colorado Mountain College, and with various international corporations before that. She has degrees related to journalism, natural resource management, forest ecology in particular, and social science with a doctorate from Colorado State University. Jessica currently works predominantly in the fields of human dimensions research, collaborative governance and natural resource policy.
Includes recorded speech and PowerPoint presentation.
Accessibility features: unedited transcript. To request an edited transcript, please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu.
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