URBAN FORESTRY AND EXTENSION: A WORKING PARTNERSHIP

Ontario ’ s Forestry Research Partnership : Progress and next steps

This paper provides a synthesis of a 2-phase approach used by the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership (CEC-FRP) to implement adaptive management on 6 forest management units in northeastern Ontario. It also provides a summary of a self evaluation of the partnership using a set of attributes deemed necessary to successfully implement adaptive management (i.e., leadership; ali...

Working in teams (Better partnership working series)

The book commences with an introductory chapter about team definitions, types of teams and why teamworking is important within and between health and social care organisations. �mong other things, the authors elaborate on the differences between a team and a group, which I find interesting, though I miss a conclusion on the distinctiveness about teams in comparison with groups. Having the titl...

Partnership working in health and social care (Better partnership working series)

This book provides a practical and concise introduction to the literature on partnership working in health and social care for students, practitioners, policy makers and managers. Partnerships have appeal internationally as a means to integrate health and social services in response to the realization that both sectors serve populations whose complex needs cannot be met adequately through segme...

Applying Ecosystem Management to Urban Forestry

During the 1990s, the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service shifted from commodity production management to ecosystem-based management (Overbay, 1992). Although definitions of ecosystem-based mana-gement vary by objectives, the principle had four primary elements: (1) maintaining viable populations of native species, (2) representing native ecosystems across their range of natu...

Working in Partnership through Early Support: distance learning text Working with parents in partnership