Accounting for Results: How Conservation Organizations Report Performance Information

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 916-929

  Rissman, Adena R ^a   Smail, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental governance; Evidence based conservation; Land conservation; Monitoring and evaluation; Performance measurement; Policy outcomes

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONSERVATION; FISH; NATURAL RESOURCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WATER CONSERVATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCES; EVIDENCE-BASED; LAND CONSERVATION; MONITORING AND EVALUATIONS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; POLICY OUTCOMES;

PUBLIC POLICY;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND MANAGEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLITICAL CONFLICT; PRIVATE LAND;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925699327     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0435-3     Document Type: Article

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