Prior to presenting my workshop this year I conducted an email conversation with participates. The technology was crude. I sent out email and asked people to hit “reply all”. Below are the (mostly unedited) comments. My responses to the participates are in CAPS. The workshop slides can be downloaded from my digital scrapbook, aka http://www.jamorell.com/. … Continue reading AEA 2012 Workshop on logic models – Pre-conference email trail with participants.
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Kim Norris’ comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
Please also look at publications by W.E. Grant. He and his colleagues apply population ecology concepts to a wide range of issues, from sustainability to applied philosophy. For my doctorate we did exactly what you describe, in particular, looking at ways that environmental trends influenced likelihood of ameliorating results vs chaotic or downward spiraling results … Continue reading Kim Norris’ comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
Chad Green’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
eminds me of a lava lamp metaphor that I created about a year ago to understand programs more as blobs of motivational energy
Mary Ann Scheirer’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
One difference between environmental sustainability, such as biological populations, I think, is that human directed programs
Nancy Lathan’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
seminal Hannan and Freeman article ("The Population Ecology of Organizations")
David Colton’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
How about creating a table, with one column listing the population ecology factors and the other (blank) column for program sustainability elements; submitting the table on this list. You would have to define the population ecology terms for us. Then list members could offer analogies. As list members offer suggestions the entire list could see … Continue reading David Colton’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
Bob Williams’ comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
Given that all EU social programs have to demonstrate how they will be sustainable, there’s been quite a bit of work in a variety of directions on this.
Odette Segal’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
PhD theses focused on examining predictions of program sustainability deriving from ecological theories as opposed to those driving adaptation theories
Meghan Guinnee’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
program that was "adapted" to its environment a decade ago might be woefully
Megan Greeson’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability
I have seen population ecology as focused on a population of organizations, not just an individual organization. Given that, sustainability-related questions would tend to examine characteristics at the population level
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