Senior Policy Advisor, Environmental Governance
Environmental Relations
Alberta Environment
9th Floor SPP / 9915 - 108 Street
Edmonton, AB T5K 2G8
Canada
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www.environment.alberta.ca
http://www.waterforlife.alberta.ca/
http://www.wpgg.ca/
Cecilia Ferreyra is a Senior Policy Advisor in Environmental Governance with Alberta Environment. Her work has to do with institutional analysis and institutional design to support water policy development in regards to the governance dimension.
Her doctoral research, as part of the Guelph Water Management Group (Department of Geography, University of Guelph), related to environmental governance in agricultural watersheds. Cecilia also focused on participatory action research as a methodology to improve the theory and practice of integrated water management in the Maitland River Watershed. In 2005, Cecilia was awarded a Graduate Fellowship for Policy Relevant Water Research in Canada from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.
Postdoctoral research projects in 2006-07 included include a water security assessment of water allocation systems across Canada , and a participatory evaluation of opportunities and challenges for the integration of source water protection and land and water stewardship initiatives in Ontario Publications related to these and other water policy research projects can be found in the website of the Water Policy and Governance Group, a multi-university research collaborative focusing on water governance and water policy, primarily – but not exclusively – in Canada: http://www.wpgg.ca/
Dr. Ferreyra has (co)authored:
Ferreyra, C. (2006). Practicality, positionality, and emancipation: reflections on participatory action research with a watershed partnership. Systemic Practice and Action Research. 19 (6): 577-598.
Abstract: In the last few decades, there has been a trend towards increased stakeholder and public participation in natural resource management in North America. To a certain extent, the rationale for this trend is found in the complexity and uncertainty of environmental issues, which confront us with the co-existance of multiple legitimate values and perspectives in society. Recognizing this "epistemological plurality" has important implications for both policy and science.
In this paper, I critically reflect on my experiences as a doctoral student engaged in participatory action research (PAR) with a watershed partnership in Ontario, Canada. In providing this biographical account, I seek to make a contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the nature, challenges and benefits of this methodological approach for academic research, as well as to emerging debates on PAR in the context of environmental governance and "post-normal" approaches to natural resource management.
This Network Member owns the following projects:
Assessing Collaborative and Integrated Water Management in the Maitland River Watershed
Water Allocation and Water Security: A Canadian Assessment
Willing to be mentor to Sustainability Science Fellows
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