Dataset: Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
type: Dataset
distribution: Landing page for the dataset
description: 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 transcript…
modified: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
issued: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
publisher: Stockholm University
theme: SOCI
theme: ENVI
access rights: PUBLIC
qualified attribution: Attribution
  had role: principalInvestigator
  agent: West, Simon
    type: Agent
    account: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9738-0593
    type: PrivateIndividual(s)
qualified attribution: Attribution
  had role: principalInvestigator
  agent: Beilin, Ruth
    type: Agent
    account: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-5766
    type: PrivateIndividual(s)
qualified attribution: Attribution
  had role: principalInvestigator
  agent: Wagenaar, Hendrik
    type: Agent
    account: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7275-6761
    type: PrivateIndividual(s)
keyword: Earth and Environmental Sciences
keyword: Social Sciences
keyword: adaptive management
keyword: environmental monitoring
keyword: evidence-based conservation
keyword: structured decision-making
keyword: practice theory
keyword: pragmatist philosophy
keyword: relational thinking
keyword: science-policy interface
keyword: applied ecology
keyword: Transcribed qualitative interview data;Field notes;Qualitative coding frame;Study information sheet;Study consent form

Landing page for the dataset
type: Distribution
title: Landningssida för datasetet @sv
access URL: Dataset: Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
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Stockholm University
type: Agent
name: Stockholms universitet @sv
type: Academia-ScientificOrganisation
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