Support watershed planning groups with assistance from agencies. Continue reading →
Best Education Practice: Beyond the Community 
See below for: research findings about how to work beyond the community – with agencies, groups, or a geographic region that may affect a specific community.
For Beyond the Community, the learning experience:
- Builds value for education as part of policy development and implementation.
- Builds skills for flexibility and responsiveness to environmental issues and for facilitating community engagement.
- Offers avenues for participation which are competent, fair, and enhance involvement for all levels of responsibility.
- Concerning a particular topic – consolidates the learning goals for all levels of responsibility, but not the teaching methods, which are adapted for the target audience.
- Matches the target audience to the scale of the problem.
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Clark, B. T., Burkardt, N., & King, M. D. (2005) Finding 1
Assess watershed organizations to channel future research and to better approximate the organizational dynamics, issue concerns, and information needs unique to the organization. Continue reading →
Dalgleish, F., & Cooper, B. J. (2005) Finding 2
When water utilities are developing a risk management strategy, encourage them to communicate with stakeholder groups, such as employees, customers, suppliers, lenders, investors, regulators, communiites, and the public. [NOTE: Finding based on one case study.]
Dalgleish, F., & Cooper, B. J. (2005) Finding 1
Encourage water utilities to adopt a risk management strategy and to identify strategic risks, such as risks to a safe, acceptable, and reliable water supply. Risks for this category, for example, can include failure to meet requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act; inappropriate catchment management; and failure to plan for growth and changes in demand. [NOTE: Finding based on one case study.]
Leach, W. D., & Pelkey, N. W. (2001) Finding 1
Design partnership development training to build understanding and skills for partnership success factors and themes identified through the Leach and Pelky (2001) meta-analysis of empirical literature. (see Table 2, p. 382 for detailed list of these associated with each factor).
Focus on factors influencing partnership success:
- maintain balance between partnership resources and scope of activity
- pursue flexible and informal process
- attend to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes
- attend to institution analysis and development (IAD) processes
Duram, L. A. and K. G. Brown (1999) Finding 2
Two-way communication methods, particularly door-to-door contact where possible, are more successful in soliciting participation for watershed planning initiatives than one-way communication (information) methods. Continue reading →
Bosch, D. J., Cook, Z. L., & Fuglie, K. O. (1995) Finding 1
Recognize the limits of regulation in producing behavior change:
- Regulation leads to adoption of specific regulated behaviors only. (e.g. the target audience performed required nitrogen test but did not apply resulting information when making decisions about nitrogen application)
