GEOG 203 Lecture 6: GEOGCH6
23 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
GEOG-203
Canadian Environmental Issues
Chapter 6: Planning and Management: Processes and Methods
p. 172-177 in textbook
Collaboration and Coordination
1. Collaboration: ESME
a. Exchanging information
b. Modifying activities in light of others’ needs
c. Sharing resources
d. Enhancing the capacity of others to achieve mutual benefit and realize
common goals or purposes
• Needed within, between and among organizations
• Once collaboration is agreed to, only then can coordination take place
• Increasingly accepted as desirable, but not always accepted by all.
2. Coordination: 5TH harmony
a. The effective or harmonious working together of different
departments, groups and individuals.
Simpson and de Loë (2014)
- Vernacular knowledge: integrates expert science and local knowledge with
community beliefs and values
- Encourages
o Reasonable debate
o Social learning
o Capacity to address value-based problems
Stakeholders and Participatory Approaches
Degrees of Sharing in Decision-Making
- In 1980, dissatisfaction with many resource and environmental management
decisions came about
o Canadians rejected the idea that a technically correct answer could
always be found
o Suggested instead that these decisions depended on weighing
conflicting goals, aspirations and values
- Idea that stakeholders had a right to participate in decision-making
because of their direct interest
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Document Summary
Chapter 6: planning and management: processes and methods: 172-177 in textbook. Increasingly accepted as desirable, but not always accepted by all: coordination: 5th harmony, the effective or harmonious working together of different departments, groups and individuals. Vernacular knowledge: integrates expert science and local knowledge with community beliefs and values. Encourages: reasonable debate, social learning, capacity to address value-based problems. In 1980, dissatisfaction with many resource and environmental management decisions came about: canadians rejected the idea that a (cid:498)technically correct(cid:499) answer could, suggested instead that these decisions depended on weighing always be found conflicting goals, aspirations and values. Idea that (cid:494)stakeholders(cid:495) had a right to participate in decision-making because of their direct interest. Any public agency with prescribed management responsibilities. All interests significantly affected by a decision. All parties susceptible to intervene in the decision-making process to facilitate block or delay it. Increasingly popular idea of partnerships among: governments, private companies, general public.
