Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Nature Centre was a non-profit organization created in 1972 to manage public outreach and access in the Gault reserve on the Mt St-Hilaire mountain, 40 km south of Montreal. In 1978, the reserve became the first UNESCO Man and the Biosphere reserve in Canada. A financial crisis in the 1990s and changing regional conditions that affected the surroundings of the reserve led to the redefinition of the Centre’s missionin 2001. Beyond conservation and recreation, the new mission included the promotion of the conservation of the region’s natural environment. The inclusion of this new regional focus implied (1) the translation and mobilization of existing scientific knowledge about the region’s ecological situation to be used by local and regional decision-makers, (2) the development of long-term partnerships with local and regional authorities in charge of municipalities or administrative territories; (3) the creation of a development plan and multimedia tools aimed at increasing the Mountain’s emblematic value in the region. The case introduces the challenge faced in early 2006 by Marc-Andre Guertin, project coordinator at the Nature Centre, when he receives a contract proposal for a biodiversity assessment to be conducted in a regional municipal county located 70 km away, i.e., far out of the Centre’s usual scope of action. He is considering this decision in the broader context of the organization’s mission and the management of his team. The Epilogue (presented in Appendix 1 of the IM) presents the decision made and its implications for the organization. Key words: organizational mission, non-for-profit, conservation, ecological management, local environmental mobilization, innovation (social).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.051 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".