Project Lead/Contact: Michele Patterson
A mix of agencies and organizations in many sectors and disciplines currently make contributions in science, research and analysis to marine management in BC. However, these are not well integrated or coordinated, and many information gaps exist.
This research analyses the literature around collaboration and the role of science in policy development in order to discover whether collaborations are actually better at asking and answering the questions needed to inform an ecosystem-based approach to planning and decision making.
Four collaborative science organizations in Canada and the USA are also being evaluated in order to discover critical elements of successful science collaborations.
The MA thesis can be downloaded here: (Word) or (PDF)