Key Elements for Successful Collaboration: Examples from TBEP
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Key Elements for Successful Collaboration:
Examples from TBEPHolly Greening
Tampa Bay Estuary ProgramJuly 2014
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Photo by JOR Johansson
Tampa Bay in the 1970s
“The Kitchen” (Hillsborough Bay near Gibsonton)
Archie Creek
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Restoring Tampa Bay
• Citizen action
• SWFWMD SWIM
late 1980s
• TBEP
1990
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TBEP Partners
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TBEP Structure
Policy Board
Management Board
TBEP Staff
Technical Advisory Committee(Open to scientists, managers)
Community Advisory Committee
(Appointed by PB)
TAC and CAC provides input to
Staff
Staff recommends to MB
MB recommends to PB
PB final approval
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EARLY Key Element:Resolution to Participate
Consider an ‘Agreement to Participate’ – All PB and MB parties sign on to
collaborate and act in good faith– Agree to identify the goals– Agree to contribute funds and/or
in-kind to support technical work– Agree to stay science-based
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EARLY Key Element:Establish a convener
1. Organize and facilitate
2. Maintain databases
3. Point of contact
4. Manage technical contractors/projects
5. Prepare annual assessments on progress
6. Report to stakeholders, agencies and the public
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EARLY Key Element
Invite all to participate in a collaborative process– Public sector– Private sector- mining– Regulatory agencies– Agriculture (FDACS)– Electric utilities– Environmental groups
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EARLY Key Elements:Synthesize existing information
and identify gaps– Status and trends of important
natural resources, water quality, pollution sources, other impacts• Technical and public documents
– Document and track ongoing projects and actions
– Identify and prioritize critical gaps in information or knowledge needed to make management decisions (2-day workshop)
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Difference between 1950 and 1990 seagrass cover
EARLY Key Element: Adopt Measurable Goals
Restore seagrass acreage to that
observed in ~1950.
Resource goals considered important by scientists, policymakers and the public
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Key Element:Adequate monitoring and
clear reportingAdvanced wastewater treatment begins
Stormwater regulations enacted
Data source: EPCHC
TBEP formed
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Key Elements in Tampa Bay’s Management Strategy
• Target resources identified by both public and science as “worthy” indicators
• Community willing to work together towards common goals
• Science-based numeric goals and targets• Multiple tools: Regulation; public/private collaborative actions; citizen actions
• Long-term monitoring• Convener to track, facilitate, report progress• Assessment and adjustment