Will Allen
Co-ordinator: Collaborative Learning for Environmental Management Group
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Address: Landcare Research, PO Box 40, Lincoln 7640, NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 3 321 9600
Fax: +64 3 321 9998
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Agricultural Science: Massey University, New Zealand (1981)
- Diploma of Business Studies (Public Relations): Massey University, NZ (1986)
- Post-graduate Diploma of Development Studies (Distinction): Massey University, NZ. (1995)
- PhD (Development Studies) 'Working together for environmental management: the role of information sharing and collaborative learning': Massey University (2001) http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/thesis_contents.html
Professional Affiliations
- Steering Committee member for IUCN Collaborative Management Working Group
- Member of Advisory Panel on Gender, Institutions and Participation for CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
- Member for CGIAR Participatory Natural Resource Management working group (PNRM-wg)
Role at Landcare Research
- Co-ordinator: Collaborative Learning for Environmental Management Group http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/
Current projects
- Collaborative learning for environmental management http://social.landcareresearch.co.nz
- Integrated catchment management https://icm.landcareresearch.co.nz
- Indigenous Biodiversity in Human Landscapes - People, Ecology, and Restoration http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biodiversity/landscapesprog/
- Redefining resources: pathways towards sustainability for government and business http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/sustain_business/resourcesprog.asp
Publications
Will Allen & Margaret Kilvington. 2002. Learning and working together for the environment: applying the Integrated Systems for Knowledge Management approach. Development Bulletin No. 58, July 2002. pp. 106-110
Allen, W.; Kilvington, M., Horn, C. (2002) Using participatory and learning-based approaches for environmental management to help achieve constructive behaviour change. Prepared for Ministry for the Environment, Landcare Research Contract Report LC0102/057, Lincoln, New Zealand. Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/par_rep.asp
Allen, W.; Kilvington, M; Nixon, C.; Yeabsley, J.(2002) Sustainable development extension. Technical Paper No: 2002/03. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: Wellington. pp. 71. Available at http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/rural-nz/people-and-their-issues/education/sustainable-development-extension/index.htm
Allen, W.J. (2001) 'Working together for environmental management: the role of information sharing and collaborative learning': PhD (Development Studies), Massey University. Available on-line: http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/thesis_contents.html
Allen, W.J., Bosch, O.J.H., Kilvington, M.J., Harley, D. & Brown I. (2001) Monitoring and adaptive management: addressing social and organisational issues to improve information sharing. Natural Resources Forum 25(3): 225-233. Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/nrf_pap.asp
Allen, W.J., Bosch, O.J.H., Kilvington, M.J. & Oliver, J. (2001) Benefits of collaborative learning for environmental management: Applying the Integrated Systems for Knowledge Management approach to support animal pest control. Environmental Management 27:2 pp. 215-223. Available at: http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/ahb_envmngmt.html
Allen, W.J., Bosch, O.J.H., & Kilvington, M.J. (2001) ISKM (Integrated Systems for Knowledge Management): A participatory framework to help communities identify and adopt more sustainable resource management practices. In: Getting results through collaboration: networks and network structures for public policy and management. Ed. Myrna Mandell, Quorum Books, Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport USA pp. 255 - 260.
Allen, W.J. (1998 - 2001) NRM-changelinks: Improving the role of participation in natural resource management. [Internet] http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks
Allen, W. & Kilvington, M. (2001) Building effective teams for resource
efficiency. Landcare Research Contract Report LC0001/60, Lincoln, New Zealand.
Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/teams_tz1.asp
Allen, W.J. & Kilvington, M.J. (1999) Why involving people is important: The
forgotten part of environmental information system management. Paper presented
to: 2nd International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems
for Land, Water and Environmental Management (MODSS '99) Brisbane, Australia,
1-6 August 1999 (Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/envinfsys.asp )
Allen, W.J., Bosch, O.J.H., Gibson, R.G. & Jopp, A.J. (1998) Co-learning our way to sustainability: An integrated and community-based research approach to support natural resource management decision-making. In Multiple Objective Decision Making for Land, Water and Environmental Management. S.A. El-Swaify and D.S. Yakowitz, Eds. Lewis Publishers, Boston. Ch. 4: pp. 51-59. Available at: http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/colearn_pap.html
Allen, W.; Brown, K.; Gloag, T.; Morris, J.; Simpson, K.; Thomas, J.; Young, R. (1998) Building partnerships for conservation in the Waitaki/Mackenzie Basins. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9899/033, Lincoln, New Zealand. Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/partnerships.asp
Allen, W., Kilvington, M., & Stephenson, G. (1998) Kereru (NZ wood-pigeon) Management Evaluation Workshop Report. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9798/135, Lincoln, New Zealand.
Allen, W.J. & Bosch, O.J.H. (1998) The role of hypermedia and the Internet in facilitating an ongoing and collaborative learning environment. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9798/110, Lincoln, New Zealand
Allen, Wardle & Bosch (1998) Providing decision support for tussock grasslands: the role of the Internet and adaptive management. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9798/130, , Lincoln, New Zealand
Allen, W.J. (1997) Towards improving the role of evaluation within natural resource management R&D programmes: The case for 'learning by doing'. Canadian Journal of Development Studies XVIII, Special Issue, pp. 625-638.
Allen, W.J. & Bosch, O.J.H. (1996) Shared experiences: the basis for a cooperative approach to identifying and implementing more sustainable land management practices Proceedings of Symposium 'Resource Management: Issues, Visions, Practice' Lincoln University, New Zealand, 5-8 July pp. 1-10
Allen, W.J., Bosch, O.J.H. & Gibson, R.G. (1995) Farmers and scientists working together to achieve more sustainable land management. Proceedings of 1995 Farming Systems Research?Extension Symposium: Linkages Among Farming Systems and Communities, Ames, Iowa, 5?8 November.
Bosch, O.J.H., Allen, W.J., McGleish, W. & Knights, G. (1999) Integrating
research and practice through information management and collaborative learning.
2nd International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for
Land, Water and Environmental Management (MODSS '99) Brisbane, Australia, 1-6
August 1999
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/envinfsys.asp
Bosch, O.J.H. & Allen, W.J. (1998) Assisting the identification and uptake of effective Tb control strategies: the development of a learning environment. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9798/105, Lincoln, New Zealand.
Bosch, O.J.H., Gibson, R.S., Kellner, K. & Allen, W. (1997) Using case?based reasoning methodology to maximise the use of knowledge to solve specific rangeland problems. Journal of Arid Environments 35: 549?557
Bosch, O.J.H., Allen, W.J., Williams, J.M. & Ensor, A (1996) An integrated system for maximising community knowledge: Integrating community?based monitoring into the adaptive management process in the New Zealand high country. The Rangeland Journal 18(1) 23-32. Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/monadman.asp
Bosch, O.J.H., Allen, W.J., O'Connor, A.H., Ensor, A., Jopp, A.J., Cameron,
H., & Allan, B.
(1996) Developing a better understanding of Hieracium invasion in the New
Zealand high country: a participatory approach. Proceedings of the New Zealand
Grassland Association 58: 161?165
Bosch, O.J.H., Allen, W.J. & Gibson, R.S. (1996) Monitoring as an integral part of management and policy making. Proceedings of Symposium AResource Management: Issues, Visions, Practice.@ Lincoln University, New Zealand, 5-8 July pp. 12-21.
Bosch, O.J.H., Williams, J.M., Allen, W.J. & Ensor, A. (1995) Integrating community?based monitoring into the adaptive management process: the New Zealand experience. Pp. 105B 106 in Proceedings Fifth International Rangelands Congress, Salt Lake City, Utah, 23B 28 July 1995.
Bosch, O.J.H., Allen, W.J., Gibson, R.S., Gibson, R. & Wardle, K. (1995) Cataloguing existing knowledge and monitoring data as a basis for the development of a management decision support system for the New Zealand high country. Pp. 62B 63 in Proceedings Fifth International Rangeland Congress, Salt Lake City, Utah, 23B 28 July 1995.
El Swaify & international contributors (1999) Sustaining the Global Farm: Local Action for Land Stewardship. Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
Gibson, R.S., Allen, W.J. & Bosch, O.J.H. (1995) Condition assessment concepts and their role in facilitating range management. Annals of Arid Zone 34(3): 179-189
Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Will Allen, Tasha M. Hargrove, Margaret Kilvington. 2003. Renovating dependency and self-reliance for participatory sustainable development. Agriculture and Human Values 20(1) pp. 53-64
Kilvington, M. & Allen, W. (2002) Sustainability science: introducing collaborative learning processes to environmental research programmes. Paper presented at the Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Environmental Climate Change. 6-7 December 2002. Available at: http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2002/files/kilvington.pdf
Kilvington, M. & Allen, W. (2001) Effective teams in Target Zero waste reduction programmes: An evaluation approach and report. Landcare Research Contract Report LC0001/62, Lincoln, New Zealand. Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/teams_tz2.asp
Kilvington, M., Allen, W. & Kravchenko, C. (1999) Improving farmer motivation within Tb vector control. Landcare Research contract report. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9899/110, Lincoln, New Zealand. Available at: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/social/groups_pests.asp