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table of contents
  1. Abstract
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. About the Authors
    1. Astrid Brousselle
    2. Kai Mountfort
  4. Invitation
  5. Prologue: The Hummingbird Fable
  6. Introduction
    1. Earth Day Evaluation Declaration 2024
    2. Endnotes
  7. 1. Context Matters: Evaluation in the 21st Century
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Environmental and Social Depletion
    4. Reducing Risks
    5. Local Cultural Contexts
    6. Evaluation Takes Place in a Political Context
    7. Post-truth Influence as the New Propaganda
    8. Conclusion
    9. Endnotes
  8. 2. Evaluation for Planetary Health
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
    4. The Planetary Health Framework
    5. A Transformative Approach
    6. Conclusion
    7. Endnotes
  9. 3. The Planetary Health Rapid Impact Assessment Tool
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. The Planetary Health Rapid Impact Assessment Tool
    4. Conclusion
    5. Endnotes
  10. 4. Evaluation: Definitions, Approaches and Questions
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Definitions
    4. Evaluation Approaches
    5. When to Evaluate and for What Purpose?
    6. Evaluative Questions
    7. Conclusion
    8. Endnotes
  11. 5. Preparing for the Evaluation
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Evaluation Use and the Importance of Mapping the Context
    4. Drafting an Evaluation Plan
    5. Summary
    6. Conclusion
    7. Endnotes
  12. 6. Representing the Intervention
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. The Causal Model
    4. The Logic Model
    5. Use of Logic Models
    6. Different Visual Representations of the Intervention
    7. Conclusion
    8. Endnotes
  13. 7. Logic Analysis
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Foundations of Logic Analysis
    4. Types of Logic Analysis
    5. Steps for Conducting a Direct Logic Analysis
    6. Steps for Conducting a Reverse Logic Analysis
    7. Conclusion
    8. Endnotes
  14. 8. Effect Analysis and Related Approaches
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Defining Effects and Causal Relationship
    4. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research Designs
    5. Contribution Analysis
    6. Impact Evaluation
    7. Considering Planetary Health Dimensions when Evaluating Impacts
    8. Outcome Harvesting
    9. Conclusion
    10. Endnotes
  15. 9. Implementation Analysis
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. In the Literature
    4. Implementation Analysis Questions
    5. Evaluation Designs for Implementation Analysis
    6. Impacts on Planetary Health
    7. Conclusion
    8. Endnotes
  16. 10. Economic Evaluation
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Background
    4. Types of Economic Evaluations
    5. The Comparator
    6. Cost Calculation
    7. Time Horizon
    8. Uncertainty
    9. Decision Criteria
    10. Limitations of Existing Approaches
    11. A Proposal for Useful Economic Evaluations for Planetary Health
    12. Conclusion
    13. Endnotes
  17. 11. Needs Assessment
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Defining What is, What should be and For Whom
    4. Contextual Elements and Boundaries
    5. Ex-ante and Ex-post
    6. Other important Considerations
    7. Next Steps?
    8. A Political Exercise
    9. Summary
    10. Endnotes
  18. 12. Monitoring
    1. Highlights
    2. Introduction
    3. Focus
    4. Establishing a Monitoring System
    5. Reporting and Other Considerations
    6. Gaming and Other Behavioural Effects
    7. Conclusion
    8. Endnotes
  19. 13. An Example: Evaluating a Local Government Official Community Plan Using Planetary Health Lenses
    1. Introduction
    2. Characterizing the OCP Within the Context of the Planetary Health Framework
    3. Data Collection
    4. Findings
    5. Recommendations
    6. Conclusion
    7. Endnotes
  20. 14. Further Thoughts and Resources
    1. Endnotes
  21. Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Writing a book is the result of many discussions, readings, and reflections. It is the culmination of a long journey involving encounters with a wide range of people, each planting a seed that helped shape the ideas presented here. To everyone who has been part of this long and winding journey, please know how immensely grateful I am to have had the privilege of sharing a piece of life with you.

I extend my deepest thanks to Jim McDavid, who has been a true partner in developing some of these ideas and who also read and commented on different versions of this book; and to Megan Curren, Rik Logtenberg, and Tara Ney, who have been close collaborators in this work, constantly challenging my thinking and pushing me further. This book would not have come into being without their collaboration over the past few years.

I am also very grateful to Larry Bremner for his immense kindness and generosity in providing guidance, and to Jill Chouinard for her support and encouragement.

My sincere thanks go to the incredible students who have worked with me to advance the planetary health agenda, especially Bronwyn Dunbar and Kai Mountfort.

I am deeply thankful to Inba Kehoe and her team at the University of Victoria Libraries. Without their immense knowledge, skills, and dedication, this project would not have been the same.

I would like to acknowledge the many members of the evaluation community who are committed to making a positive difference, with special thanks to Weronika Felcis. Sometimes, it just takes a good conversation to get the writing started. Thank you to everyone who shared resources and ideas along the way.

My move to British Columbia a few years ago created fertile ground for developing these new ideas. I am deeply grateful to the people I met who introduced me to new readings and perspectives, as Jeff Corntassel, and to my colleagues from UVic in the Anthropocene, a diverse, multidisciplinary group of faculty members committed to engaging the University of Victoria and its broader communities on socio-environmental challenges.

I am also grateful to my early mentors, supervisors, and collaborators who shaped my intellectual frameworks when I was a student, including François Champagne, André-Pierre Contandriopoulos, Zulmira Hartz, and Louise Potvin. I extend my thanks to those who have supported me throughout my career, including colleagues from the Université de Sherbrooke and the Centre de recherche de l’Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne, as well as Elliot Stern and Jonny Morell, long-time editors of Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice and Program Planning and Evaluation, who have believed in my work throughout this journey.

Finally, I am endlessly grateful to my family, friends, and fellow musicians, whose presence brings me joy and strength every day.

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