TY - JOUR
T1 - The Community Watershed Stewardship Program
T2 - Experiments in engagement and equity in Portland, OR
AU - Miller, Thaddeus
AU - Goodling, Erin
AU - Herrington, Cameron
AU - Devlin, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all the CWSP grantees, volunteers and BES staff who make all this work possible. This work was funded in part by the Bureau of Environmental Services Community Watershed Stewardship Grant to Portland State University, and work supported by National Science Foundation IGERT Grant # 0966376 : ‘Sustaining Ecosystem Services to Support Rapidly Urbanizing Areas.’
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - The Community Watershed Stewardship Program (CWSP) is a long-running city-university partnership between the City of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services and Portland State University, with the goal of improving watershed health. CWSP has recently focused its efforts on addressing equity, exploring how community watershed stewardship can be generated by low-income and minority communities.This paper provides a case study of CWSP, exploring its genesis; how it leverages community support and engagement; and, its leadership in analyzing the equity implications of its work and how it can improve. CWSP, which received the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Foundation Campus Community Partnership Award, serves as an excellent example of an innovative university-city partnership that is able to leverage a relatively small amount of funding by fostering bottom-up community engagement. Most importantly, CWSP demonstrates how university-community partnerships can explore innovative ways to merge environmental and social equity goals and outcomes.
AB - The Community Watershed Stewardship Program (CWSP) is a long-running city-university partnership between the City of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services and Portland State University, with the goal of improving watershed health. CWSP has recently focused its efforts on addressing equity, exploring how community watershed stewardship can be generated by low-income and minority communities.This paper provides a case study of CWSP, exploring its genesis; how it leverages community support and engagement; and, its leadership in analyzing the equity implications of its work and how it can improve. CWSP, which received the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Foundation Campus Community Partnership Award, serves as an excellent example of an innovative university-city partnership that is able to leverage a relatively small amount of funding by fostering bottom-up community engagement. Most importantly, CWSP demonstrates how university-community partnerships can explore innovative ways to merge environmental and social equity goals and outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.08.008
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.08.008
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84943557029
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 17
SP - 30
EP - 35
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -