An assessment of the effectiveness of two watershed councils in the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2002 the Que?bec government introduced its Water Policy (' La Politique nationale de l'eau') in response to growing water-related issues at multiple scales. The policy aims in part to promote a collaborative and participative approach through Integrated Watershed-Based Management (IWBM) by designating 33 priority watersheds throughout the province. This thesis focuses on the factors enhancing and constraining the effectiveness and success of two priority Watershed Councils in the Gaspe? Peninsula, in the context of the Que?bec Water Policy. An evaluative framework was developed to assist in identifying facilitating and limiting factors. The framework is comprised of seven process criteria and seven environmental and social outcome criteria. Through interviewing key informants from two case study Watershed Councils (WCs), and through document analysis, factors influencing WCs' effectiveness were identified. Recommendations to overcome challenges and improve the effectiveness of watershed partnerships and IWBM implementation are made.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".