Print Email Facebook Twitter Community-based monitoring initiatives of water and environment Title Community-based monitoring initiatives of water and environment: Evaluation of establishment dynamics and results Author Gharesifard, M. (TU Delft Water Resources) Contributor van der Zaag, P. (promotor) Wehn, U. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2020-09-28 Abstract Citizen participation in water and environmental management via communitybased monitoring (CBM) has been praised for the potential to facilitate better informed, more inclusive, transparent, and representative decision making. However, methodological and empirical research trying to conceptualize and evaluate the dynamics at play that might enable or hinder these initiatives from delivering on their potential is limited. This research contributed to the conceptualization of CBMs through development of a conceptual framework that is suitable for Context analysis, Process evaluation and Impact assessment of CBMs – the CPI Framework. This conceptualization provides an interpretation of what ‘community’ means in the context of a CBM initiative. In addition, this research contributed to the existing empirical knowledge about the establishment, functioning and outcomes of CBMs by testing the CPI Framework for studying two real life CBMs throughout the lifetime of an EU-funded project – the Ground Truth 2.0. The first CBM is called Grip op Water Altena that focuses on the issue of pluvial floods in ‘Land van Heusden en Altena’ of the Netherlands. The second CBM is Maasai Mara Citizen Observatory and aims at contributing to a better balance between biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihood management in the Mara ecosystem in Kenya. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:532c57be-a57d-4234-8bd7-1970f4f33428 Publisher CRC Press / Balkema - Taylor & Francis Group ISBN 978-0-367-67401-4 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2020 M. Gharesifard Files PDF 2020_IHE_PHD_THESIS_GHARE ... FARD_i.pdf 16.12 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:532c57be-a57d-4234-8bd7-1970f4f33428/datastream/OBJ/view