A Multiple Case Study of Community-Based Water Management Initiatives in New Brunswick

The evolution of sustainable development strategies in Canada: an assessment of three federal natural resource management agencies

“…Plummer and Stacey (2000) extended application of the management model by using it as a relative guide for evaluation. Similar application is made here to examine the expression of sustainability in policies advanced by three Canadian natural resource management agencies.…”

“…The second stage involved the development of a profile of exhibited characteristics (indicators) of each respective strategy. The relative scale utilized by Plummer and Stacey (2000) was adapted and employed to create the profiles. If a sustainability element is not expressed within a particular managerial element the symbol * is placed in the quadrant.…”

“…The outcome of qualitative analysis is the development of a profile of the sustainability elements exhibited. Consistent with the approach by Plummer and Stacey (2000), the intensity with which the institution has expressed the sustainability element is gauged using a relative scale as described in the preceding section. Table 4 provides a summary of the analysis.…”

How are we Working Together? A Framework to Assess Collaborative Arrangements in Nature-based Tourism

“…Context to the case of the Lower St John River is shaped by the physical attributes of the resource (river and riparian system) and property rights associated with water resources. Water resource management in Canada is complex and occurs through various government agencies (federal, provincial, local) as well as non-governmental organisations (Mitchell & Shrubsole, 1994;Plummer & Stacey, 2000). Despite the considerable size of the drainage basin, focus on the lower portion of the St John River concentrates attention to a sub-watershed scale.…”

“…Assessment frameworks have also been effectively incorporated into evaluative and policy research. Plummer and Stacey (2000) used an assessment framework to qualitatively gauge the expression of sustainability in community-based water resource management organisations. More recently, Plummer (2006) employed an assessment matrix in his comparative evaluation of sustainability strategies (generation one and two) of three Canadian resource agencies.…”