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Dataset: Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/P7BPHE |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2019-07-16 |
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West, Simon; Beilin, Ruth; Wagenaar, Hendrik, 2019, "Dataset: Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P7BPHE, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Dataset: Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/P7BPHE |
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Authoring Entity: |
West, Simon (Stockholms universitet) |
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Beilin, Ruth (University of Melbourne) |
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Wagenaar, Hendrik (King's College London) |
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Other identifications and acknowledgements: |
Simon West |
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Other identifications and acknowledgements: |
Ruth Beilin |
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Other identifications and acknowledgements: |
Hendrik Wagenaar |
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Producer: |
Simon West |
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Date of Production: |
2019-05-01 |
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Grant Number: |
2011-1837 |
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Grant Number: |
2011-1837 |
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Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
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West, Simon |
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Depositor: |
West, Simon |
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Date of Deposit: |
2019-05-17 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P7BPHE |
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Study Scope |
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Keywords: |
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, adaptive management, environmental monitoring, evidence-based conservation, structured decision-making, practice theory, pragmatist philosophy, relational thinking, science-policy interface, applied ecology |
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This research project explored the science and practice of ecological monitoring for adaptive management. We conducted a qualitative case study of a project intended to develop an adaptive management approach to vegetation restoration in the ‘Wildlands National Park,’ Australia (hereafter referred to as 'the Wildlands AM project'). ‘Wildlands’ is a pseudonym – all place and personal names associated with the AM project have been changed to protect the participants’ anonymity. Our qualitative case study of the Wildlands AM project adopted a theoretical perspective rooted in practice theory (Cook, S.D.M. and Wagenaar, H. 2012. 'Navigating the Eternally Unfolding Present: Towards an Epistemology of Practice. The American Review of Public Administration 42(1): 31-38). Data collection methods consisted of one observation event and open-ended qualitative interviews. The observation event consisted of observing a three-day scientific field trip to the Wildlands National Park undertaken by scientists in the Wildlands AM project. The field trip was a pilot study that was intended to contribute information to a broader process of developing an adaptive management approach to vegetation restoration at Wildlands. Follow-up, open-ended qualitative interviews were conducted with most Wildlands AM project participants, including scientists on the field trip and representatives of the Wildlands management authority. These interviews tool place over a period of six months following the field trip as the scientists were writing up a final report to the management authority. The data corpus was analyzed using deductive thematic analysis, where a coding scheme was devised from pre-existing theoretical constructs (Cook and Wagenaar 2012) and applied to the written interview transcripts and field notes using Nvivo for Mac qualitative data analysis software. The fully anonymised dataset stored here contains the written field notes taken during the observation event; the written transcripts of the qualitative interviews; a summary description of the characters that appear in the data corpus and their roles in relation to the adaptive management project; the qualitative coding scheme used to analyse the data; and the participant information sheet and participant consent form provided to participants prior to each interview. Further contextual, methodological and conceptual details that may help with the interpretation of this dataset are available in the associated scientific paper: West, S., Beilin, R. & Wagenaar, H. 2019. Introducing a practice perspective on adaptive management. People and Nature, https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10033. |
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Time Period: |
2014-03-01-2014-12-31 |
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Date of Collection: |
2014-03-01-2014-12-31 |
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Australia |
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Unit of Analysis: |
Groups Institutions/organizations |
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Kind of Data: |
Transcribed qualitative interview data |
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Kind of Data: |
Field notes |
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Kind of Data: |
Qualitative coding frame |
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Kind of Data: |
Study information sheet |
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Kind of Data: |
Study consent form |
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Methodology and Processing |
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Data Collector: |
Simon West |
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Frequency of Data Collection: |
The observation event took place in May 2014. The interviews were conducted at regular intervals between March and December 2014. |
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Sampling Procedure: |
We identified an AM project initiated by a public national parks management authority (‘the Authority’) in partnership with a world-renowned university (‘the University’). The project was intended to develop an adaptive approach to the management of grazing pressure on threatened vegetation at the ‘Wildlands National Park,’ Australia. We contacted the two scientists responsible for the project, Sam and Val, in January 2014, when they were halfway through their two-year contract on the project and were preparing to embark on a field trip to Wildlands. Our research consisted of one observation event occurring over three days (the field trip) and twelve semi-structured follow-up interviews conducted with project participants. |
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Mode of Data Collection: |
Open ended interviews Participant observation |
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Type of Research Instrument: |
Unstructured |
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Characteristics of Data Collection Situation: |
Interviewees were highly cooperative Interviews lasted between 30 minutes and 2 hours |
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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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Citation |
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Title: |
West, S., Beilin, R. & Wagenaar, H. 2019. Introducing a practice perspective on adaptive management. People and Nature, https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10033. |
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https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10033 |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
West, S., Beilin, R. & Wagenaar, H. 2019. Introducing a practice perspective on adaptive management. People and Nature, https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10033. |
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CodingSpecification_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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ConsentForm_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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FieldNotes_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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InformationSheet_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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Names_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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Transcript1Sam_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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Transcript2Sam Val_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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Transcript3Sam Val_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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Transcript4Logan_PracticeAdaptiveManagement2019.pdf |
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