Category: evaluation
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A framework to analyse the effectiveness of biodiversity offset policy
This is Part 4 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. In this series of blog posts, I’ve introduced the motivation for my research topic, described the general range of approaches used to evaluate environmental policies, and have suggested some reasons as to why evaluation may not happen as […]
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Evaluation is important, so why don’t we do it more often?
This is Part 3 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. In my last post, I gave an overview of the many different approaches which can be used to evaluate environmental policies. I think it’s pretty well established that evaluation is an incredibly important activity, as it’s really the only […]
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Evaluating environmental policies: what, how and why
This is Part 2 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. In the previous post, I described the motivation for my PhD topic, which was to try to understand what outcomes have been delivered by biodiversity offsetting policies in order to inform future policy development. A key criticism of biodiversity […]
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Seeking evidence to inform the biodiversity offsets policy debate
This is Part 1 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. When I first embarked on my PhD research, my main interest was in trying to learn about what outcomes had been delivered by biodiversity offsetting policies. There were a few reasons for this. First, I knew that biodiversity offsetting was […]
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An interdisciplinary approach to evaluating environmental policy: the case of biodiversity offsetting
My presentation given at this week’s North American Society for Conservation Biology (NACCB) Conference held in Missoula, Montana is now on Slideshare:
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Environmental offset policy and bridging the science-policy divide
The latest issue of Decision Point magazine features a brief article outlining some the “co-benefits” that have been generated through the collaboration between the Department of the Environment and researchers from the Environmental Decisions Group which resulted in EPBC Act environmental offsets assessment guide. I’ve previously blogged about this collaboration here, but as mentioned in […]
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Findings tabled from the Senate Inquiry into Environmental Offsets
A report into the recent Senate inquiry into environmental offsets has now been tabled – you can download the full report here. The inquiry was set up earlier in the year by the Australian Greens with the support of the Labor Party, and generated a fair bit of media at the time (here, here and here). I’m […]
Megan C. Evans 