Contributions of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Webinar slides and recording for “Using Ecology to Evaluate Policy”

Using the Biotic Hierarchy as a Framework for Moving Policy Evaluation Away from a Program Evaluation-like Activity

Slide deck and video – When and how can ideas from Evolutionary Biology and Ecology be useful in program and policy evaluation? February 2020

Evolutionary Biology and Ecology as a Valuable Framework for Some Evaluation

What does evaluation gain from thinking in alien terms? An argument for taking complexity and evolutionary biology seriously

Can Knowledge of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Inform Evaluation?

Preliminary Notes on The Application of Concepts from Evolutionary Biology and Ecology to Evaluation

Eat desert first. Life is uncertain.
Good advice. True observation.

Any yet, we must soldier on, trying to predict what will happen and to explain why things work out as the way they do. My professional life has grappled with prediction and explanation through the lens of program evaluation. I have come to appreciate how much, and how little, evaluation can tell us. Sometimes it is “much”. Sometime is “little”. Sometimes it is “much” and “little” at the same time. This blog expresses my engagement with what evaluation can do, what it cannot do, what it should do, and what it should not do. About the graphic.

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