Part 7
IN THIS SECTION
Can you work with people?
Behind each habitat restoration project we find a diverse array of complex social drivers and settings arising from a group needing to reach shared goals and take collective action. Prominent social scientists Hannah Gosnell and Laura Van Riper will discuss the principles and practices of collaborative conservation in river restoration—focusing on approaches we can integrate into identifying restoration goals and planning and taking joint action—to reduce the risk that our projects will be slowed, significantly altered or abandoned. We’ll then be joined by several of the restoration practitioners whose projects we’ve profiled in our workshop case studies. They’ll share firsthand experiences of how their restoration goals impacted nearby neighbors and communities, the challenges they faced, the lessons they learned, and how they found their way through to success in the end.
0:00 Introduction with Irma Lagomarsino, Senior Policy Advisor, NOAA
3:23 Conversation: Social science
featuring Hannah Gosnell, Professor of Geography, Oregon State University; and Laura Van Riper, Social Scientist, Bureau of Land Management
If you can't work with people, you're in the wrong field. Join a conversation with Hannah Gosnell and Laura Van Riper to learn about how perceptions, interests, and biases confound your restoration efforts and the strategies to reduce the risk that your project will be slowed, significantly altered or abandoned.
43:55 Group reflections
featuring Mathias Perle, Lisa Huntington, and Ian Wilson
Do social drivers really impact projects? Three practitioners featured earlier in our workshop join the conversation and share their firsthand experiences of how social dimensions influenced their projects and how they found their way through to success in the end.