Guidebook for the Engaged University
This guidebook from Beyond the Academy Network provides a comprehensive overview of strategies and tools for transitioning from academic settings to diverse career paths. It offers practical advice, resources, and insights to help individuals leverage their academic expertise in various professional environments and achieve career success beyond traditional academia.
Tools for Measuring, Modelling, and Valuing Ecosystem Services
This handbook provides guidance for practitioners on existing tools that can be applied to measure or model ecosystem services provided by important sites for biodiversity and nature conservation, including key biodiversity areas, natural world heritage sites, and protected areas. Selecting an appropriate tool requires identifying the specific question being addressed, what sorts of results or outputs are required, and consideration of practical factors such as the level of expertise, time, and data required for applying any given tool. This guide builds on existing reviews of ecosystem services assessment tools, but has an explicit focus on assessing ecosystem services for sites of importance for biodiversity and nature conservation.
A Practical Handbook for Population Viability Analysis
This handbook offers a practical guide to population viability analysis, providing essential tools and methodologies for assessing the long-term survival and health of species populations. It is designed to support conservationists and researchers in evaluating population dynamics and making informed decisions to enhance species conservation efforts.
A Scorecard for Designing and Evaluating University Partnerships
This book chapter addresses the need for a framework by which the university’s many diverse partnerships can be compared and assessed. The scorecard tool presented here is valuable to those who are establishing or operating university partnerships, as a source of guidance and best practices on how to make their partnership run smoother and more effectively.