Activities and examples of their practical application for use of
an ecosystem approach to develop a stewardship ethic.
| Activity
| Examples of Application
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| Strategic analysis of messages
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- Understand stewardship ethics as a process, not a product
- Make education inclusive in content and process
- Understand connections within an ecosystem
- Promote humility, understand delicateness/fragility
- Define desired end product (What should paradigm shift look like?)
- Offer a vision of what can be achieved
- Demonstrate a trust in the vision
- Demonstrate payoffs, show "what's in it for me to achieve a
stewardship ethic"
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| Strategic analysis of audience-landscape
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- Recognize social-economic restraints when trying to achieve a
stewardship ethic
- People need to assess their own lifestyles
- Understand history and present system in order to recognize
barriers and necessary changes
- Use present issues (i.e. gender issues to illustrate
limitations of current ways of thinking)
- Reach out to unconverted and apathetic
- Target and identify the converted to work with as partners
- Introduce ecosystem education in all organizations (i.e.
business, schools, finance, government)
- Focus on youth by affecting curriculum
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| Strategic development of shared actions - empower partnerships
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- Decentralize
- Empower local decision-making to create ownership
- Provide opportunities to participate in decision-making in
actions that affect the environment
- Encourage action - ask people to take action
- Develop partnerships with others
- Empower (train) trainers and outreach people
- Build fun into process
- Build on successes; build on strengths
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| Strategic development of shared actions - sample techniques and tools
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- Give funding for stewardship projects; give recognition or
incentives for stewardship
- Generate and distribute information (e.g. provide a lay-
person's definition of "stewardship ethic" and "ecosystem
approach"
- Introduce interdisciplinary curricula/cross-curricula in
schools
- Employ multi-media techniques
- Promote active learning/role modelling (peer taught and
reinforced)
- Ensure public consultation
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| Create appropriate communications out of the above activities as
an alternative to status quo
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- In early phases of the process, tie key phrases to sense of
place and grassroots local"ness"
- Involve societal partners (e.g. utilities, banks, service
organizations, etc.) in disseminating materials
- Avoid mass media until end of process
- Recognize the time it will take to achieve ecosystem thinking
and understand the risk of trying to shift the paradigm
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| Evaluation and follow-up
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- Develop ecosystem approach to evaluation
- Evaluate in realistic time frame using realistic criteria
- Involve stakeholders in own evaluation
- Celebrate successes
- Acknowledge involvement
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