Lessons Learned in Developing Social Indicators for Regional Water Quality Management
This article outlines a process for developing social indicators for regional resource management programs. Insights and lessons are drawn from experience developing indicators for the social dimensions of water quality programs addressing non-point-source pollution. The project driving
these insights originated with a charge from regional leaders of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) water quality program to a project team comprised of participants from land grant universities within the region. We believe the indicator development process from that experience
could be applied in other regions to address a variety of resource management issues. Key lessons learned through this process include the value of building stakeholder capacity for using social data, the importance of developing a conceptual framework to guide indicator selection, and the
importance of selecting a small set of core indicators.
Keywords: conceptual framework; indicator development; non-point source; regional management; stakeholder involvement
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2: Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Publication date: 01 January 2010
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