From awareness to attitude to action: An iterative approach to evaluating impacts of NRM projects

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2001

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Watkinsville, Ga.: SANREM CRSP

Abstract

This brief illustrates how environmental projects can respond to donors' demands for evidence of impacts in the early stages of their implementation, before longer-term improvements in natural resource conditions have time to occur. The approach centers on a hierarchical classification of impacts that allows to capture "intermediate" steps, that is shifts in awareness and attitude that

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Participatory processes, Social impacts, Research planning, Social learning, Environmental impacts, Institutional capacity building, Community participation, Local knowledge, Survey research methods, Natural resource management, Progress evaluation, Impact assessment, Technology transfer, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale

Citation

SANREM CRSP Research Brief 2001 no. 2