Community engagement for adaptive management in environmental assessment follow-up : Mobilisation communautaire pour la gestion adaptative de l'étude de l'évaluation environnementale (ÉE) : rapport final

The questions posed to each group covered the basic scale of their monitoring effort, the types of monitoring and types of data that they collected, as well as the data collection techniques and the protocols, guidelines, and kits that they used. [...] For each of the 10 case studies, we developed a short history of the organization to understand how the monitoring started and then how it evolved; we asked them to describe the scale of the monitoring effort, the sources of funding, and the number of volunteers active in the programs. [...] In addition, we address some issues identified in the literature — the types of monitoring data collected, the quality of monitoring data, the protocols used, how the data are reported and used, the structure of CBEM organizations, working with volunteers, funding, the challenges for CBEM groups, and the relationship between CBEM and adaptive management. [...] Of our case studies, the North Shore Streamkeepers, the Lake Windermere Project, and SurVol Benthos in Quebec use BMIs to monitor the quality of river water; the CAMP program in the Maritimes use BMIs to monitor the quality of water in coastal estuaries. [...] When the sampling kits are provided, the instructor explains the equipment in the kits, reads through the sampling protocols with them, distributes the maps, and explains the reporting procedures.