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Program Sustainability, Replication and Scale-up

A Model for Evaluation of Transformation to a Green Energy Future

A complexity perspective on a theory of change for long term program effects

What complexity theory do evaluators need to know?

A simple recipe for improving the odds of sustainability: A systems perspective

A Complex System Perspective on Program Scale-up and Replication

What is the relationship between path dependence and system stability? With explanation of why I care.

Understanding sustainability – systems as a framework, thermodynamics as a metaphor

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

Mary Ann Scheirer’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability

Nancy Lathan’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability

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

Odette Segal’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability

Meghan Guinnee’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability

Megan Greeson’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability

Jess Chandler’s comment on Jam’s original Evaltalk post about population ecology and program sustainability

Originalpost to Evaltalk: Are principles of population ecology useful in understanding sustainability as evaluators use the term?

Are principles of population ecology useful in understanding sustainability as evaluators use the term?

Is it useful to think of “fidelity” in terms of “attractors?”

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Eat dessert 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 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.

Contributions to this blog are most welcome. If you are interested, please contact me at jamorell@jamorell.com.

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