@article{beratan_2020, title={Application of intervention design concepts to project planning for collaborative adaptive management of natural resources}, volume={25}, ISSN={["1708-3087"]}, DOI={10.5751/ES-11324-250111}, abstractNote={Natural resource management practitioners responsible for planning collaborative adaptive management (CAM) efforts face major challenges related to the complexity of both the systems being managed and the management systems themselves. Standard project planning approaches such as logic models are poorly suited to such situations. Development of an effective action plan requires identification of potential interventions that are both likely to be impactful and practical in that particular social-political context. Little guidance is available for practitioners because there has been only limited translation of theory-driven guidelines into practical and readily useable tools and guidelines. Similar challenges are shared by practitioners in many applied social science and transdisciplinary fields that focus on interventions aimed at changing individual and collective human behavior. Intervention research was developed to assist with program development in applied social science fields and can provide natural resource management practitioners with insights into how they can gather and organize information about human behavior that is specifically relevant to the problem situation. The basic organizing structure of intervention design can be summarized as: intervening actors take actions intended to cause modification of the behavior of targeted actors leading to improvement in the conditions of interest. I present an organizing structure based on intervention design concepts that expands on the human behavior elements of the Exploratory Problem Assessment (EA) approach of Beratan (2019). The EA approach affords the positive features of results chains while further enhancing the usability and timeliness of the results for facilitation of strategic planning and project evaluation. The approach provides information that is directly relevant to project planning and can be done by or for a CAM project manager relatively quickly at the start of project planning with a minimum of facilitation. The basic concepts are readily understandable to nonspecialists both because humans are predisposed to perceive causal relationships and a diagrammatic presentation using information design principles can readily convey quite complex relationships. An example from a collaborative multilevel land-use planning effort in North Carolina illustrates how the framework can be applied.}, number={1}, journal={ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY}, author={Beratan, Kathi K.}, year={2020}, month={Mar} }
 @article{beratan_2019, title={Improving problem definition and project planning in complex natural resource management problem situations using knowledge brokers and visual design principles}, volume={24}, ISSN={["1708-3087"]}, DOI={10.5751/ES-10815-240231}, abstractNote={Collaborative adaptive management (CAM) has proved difficult to implement successfully. Insufficient attention to the problem definition process contributes to disappointing outcomes because that step sets the problem-solving approach and the attitudes of key partners. The exploratory problem assessment (EA) approach is a practical and cost-effective way for CAM project managers to learn enough about a problem situation quickly enough to identify critical partners and incorporate their input into problem definition and project planning. EA is a facilitated conceptual modeling approach built around two basic ideas: knowledge-focused facilitation can improve the problem definition process, and information design concepts can assist in building common understandings of complex situations. A facilitator with knowledge-brokering skills gathers and integrates information from people with diverse experiential and technical knowledge of the problem situation. The results are presented as information-rich and readily understandable diagrammatic conceptual models that can function as change theories for project planning. The EA approach and visual design strategy are described, with two illustrative cases showing how the approach can be applied in practice.}, number={2}, journal={ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY}, author={Beratan, Kathi A.}, year={2019}, month={Jul} }
 @article{mulrooney_beratan_mcginn_branch_2017, title={A Comparison of raster-based travel time surfaces against vector-based network calculations as applied in the study of rural food deserts}, volume={78}, journal={Applied Geography}, author={Mulrooney, T. and Beratan, K. and McGinn, C. and Branch, B.}, year={2017}, pages={12–21} }
 @article{beratan_2014, title={Summary: Addressing the interactional challenges of moving collaborative adaptive management from theory to practice}, volume={19}, number={1}, journal={Ecology and Society}, author={Beratan, K. K.}, year={2014} }
 @inproceedings{beratan_2010, title={What you need to understand is: Cultural barriers to expansion of local food systems in the United States: An example from North Carolina}, booktitle={Proceedings, Society for Anthropological Sciences Annual Meeting 2010, Albuquerque, NM}, author={Beratan, K.}, year={2010} }
 @inproceedings{beratan_2008, title={Getting there from here: Can we deliberately foster cultural change for the common good?}, booktitle={Proceedings, Society for Anthropological Sciences Annual Meeting, 2008, New Orleans, LA}, author={Beratan, K.}, year={2008} }
 @article{beratan_2007, title={A cognition-based view of decision processes in complex social-ecological systems}, volume={12}, number={1}, journal={Ecology and Society}, author={Beratan, K. K.}, year={2007} }
 @inbook{beratan_2007, title={Complexity and the science-policy interface}, ISBN={1574445537}, booktitle={Handbook of globalization and the environment}, publisher={Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press}, author={Beratan, K.}, editor={K. V. Thai, D. Rahm and Coggburn, J. D.Editors}, year={2007}, pages={527–551} }
 @article{beratan_kabala_loveless_martin_spyke_2004, title={Sustainability indicators as a communicative tool: Building bridges in Pennsylvania}, volume={94}, number={1-3}, journal={Environmental Monitoring and Assessment}, author={Beratan, K. and Kabala, S. J. and Loveless, S. M. and Martin, P. J. S. and Spyke, N. P.}, year={2004}, pages={179–191} }
 @inbook{beratan_loveless_martin_spyke_2003, title={The state of our commonwealth: Is Pennsylvania moving towards a sustainable and resilient future?}, booktitle={Report and recommendations submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection}, publisher={Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection}, author={Beratan, K. and Loveless, S. M. and Martin, P. J. S. and Spyke, N. P.}, year={2003} }