Partnerships for Watershed Governance in Peachland, B.C.

Partnerships for Watershed Governance in Peachland, B.C. is a participatory action research initiative focused on the development of an integrated watershed co-governance model for Peachland Creek Community Watershed. This project, in partnership with the District of Peachland and Syilx communities, is designed to develop relationships, braid epistemologies, and facilitate local-level watershed governance capacity development within a mutually beneficial academic-community research framework. This project will utilize ecological governance and theory of change, community-engaged methodology and a multi-methods approach centred within a six-part governance workshop series to facilitate the collaborative design of the model. The ultimate goal of the project is to support the community of Peachland in its efforts to establish greater local-level influence in provincial watershed decision-making processes and observe the enabling conditions of a practical governance transition for the benefit of sharing lessons with other communities and community-engaged researchers working toward watershed governance development.

Faculty Supervisor:

John Wagner

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Partner:

District of Peachland

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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