Dataset: Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
type: 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…
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contributor: Simon West
  type: Person
  affiliation: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
  family name: West
  given name: Simon
contributor: West, Simon
  type: Person
  affiliation: Stockholms universitet
  family name: West
  given name: Simon
contributor: Simon West
  type: Person
  family name: West
  given name: Simon
contributor: Ruth Beilin
  type: Person
  family name: Beilin
  given name: Ruth
contributor: Hendrik Wagenaar
  type: Person
  family name: Wagenaar
  given name: Hendrik
creative work status: completed
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  term code: COMPLETED
creator: West, Simon
creator: Beilin, Ruth
creator: Wagenaar, Hendrik
date modified: 2019-05-01
date published: 2019-05-01
funding: Grant
  funder: Vetenskapsrådet
funding: Grant
  funder: ARC-CEED (Australian Research Council - Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions)
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keywords: Social Sciences
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  term code: 5
keywords: Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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  term code: 105
keywords: Earth and Environmental Sciences
keywords: adaptive management
keywords: environmental monitoring
keywords: evidence-based conservation
keywords: structured decision-making
keywords: practice theory
keywords: pragmatist philosophy
keywords: relational thinking
keywords: science-policy interface
keywords: applied ecology
keywords: Transcribed qualitative interview data;Field notes;Qualitative coding frame;Study information sheet;Study consent form
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
publisher: Stockholms universitet
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property ID: DOI
value: 10.7910/DVN/P7BPHE

Stockholms universitet
type: Organization
name: Stockholm University

West, Simon
type: Person
affiliation: Stockholms universitet
family name: West
given name: Simon

Beilin, Ruth
type: Person
affiliation: University of Melbourne
family name: Beilin
given name: Ruth

Wagenaar, Hendrik
type: Person
affiliation: King's College London
family name: Wagenaar
given name: Hendrik

Vetenskapsrådet
type: Organization