Stewardship Mapping Results, Products, and Public Data
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Results, Products and Public Data
The SNEP STEW-MAP survey was launched in Fall 2020 and closed in June, 2021 developing new outreach protocols to work across municipal and state boundaries. The team worked with a team of RISD research assistants to conduct the initial survey as well as two rounds of alter surveys resulting in a high response rate. In addition to the STEW-MAP survey, they collected data about how many of the responding organizations have been impacted by COVID-19. They asked questions about how their capacity, public engagement and ability to perform direct stewardship shifted during the pandemic.
The following links visualize Knowledge, Funding, Other important collaborators and aggregated network relationships among stewardship organizations as reported by respondents to the Southeast New England Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP) survey. SNE STEW-MAP is a project conducted by RISD, Brown University, Compass Cartographic and EPA’s Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division through the ORISE fellowship program. For more information, visit the SNEP Network website or email the PI, Bryce DuBois, at bdubois@risd.edu.
To use these maps: Use the top search bar to find a particular organization (node). Clicking on any of the nodes will provide images of their linkages.
View the Stew Map Dashboard (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/2fe9393c3fe343ab80cdcaf6c1a2cb33)
Introductory Video: Using the Southeast New England Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project Dashboard
Contact for custodians of the data:
Bryce DuBois: bdubois@risd.edu
Jesse S. Sayles: jessesayles@gmail.com
Attribute Files:
SNEP StewMAP Attribute Data
SNEP StewMAP Attribute Data Dictionary
Network Relationships Files (Read more information about the network relationships data)
1. From whom stewardship groups seek information or knowledge
2. Where stewardship groups get funding
3. Whom stewardship groups consider to be key collaborators, in addition to their knowledge sources and funders
SNEP StewMAP Turfs Geodatabase (Download here)
Contact for custodians of the data:
Bryce DuBois: bdubois@risd.edu
Jesse S. Sayles: jessesayles@gmail.com
~ The StewMAP SNE Kickoff event (9.16.2020)
~ 2022 SNEP Symposium Presentation
~ Self-reported effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stewardship organizations and their activities in the southeast New England, USA – Casey Merkle, RISD
~Webinar: The Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project of Southeast New England: Learn About Organizations and Find New Collaborations Across SNEP Watersheds
Download Copy of the Webinar Slidedeck
Abstract:
In many communities, regions, or landscapes, there are numerous environmental groups working across different sectors and creating stewardship networks that shape the environment and the benefits people derive from it. The make-up of these networks can vary, but generally include organizations of different sizes and capacities. As the Covid-19 pandemic (2020 to the present) shuts down businesses and nonprofits, catalyzes new initiatives, and generally alters the day-to-day professional and personal lives, it is logical to assume that these stewardship networks and their environmental work are impacted; exactly how, is unknown. In this study, we analyze the self-reported effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on stewardship groups working in southeast New England, USA. Stewardship organizations were surveyed from November 2020 to April 2021 and asked, among other questions, “How is Covid-19 affecting your organization?” We analyzed responses using several qualitative coding approaches. Our analysis revealed group-level impacts including changes in group capacity, challenges in managing access to public green spaces, and altered forms of volunteer engagement. These results provide insights into the varied effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses such as stay-at-home orders and social distancing policies on stewardship that can inform the development of programs to reduce negative outcomes and enhance emerging capacities and innovations.
StewMAP SNE + US Forest Service Northern Research Station
Check out the StewMAP SNE page on the US FS Northern Research Station soon for the project dashboard. Available, here: https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/STEW-MAP/southernNE/