Shared Footprints Awards Judging Criteria
The Shared Footprints Awards are Emerald Certified. What this means is that these awards will be reviewed and adjudicated by the Emerald Awards judges.
These judges will determine the finalists and award recipients based on how your project meets the standards of the Emerald Awards, as well as how your project addresses the Integrated Land Management outcomes and principles.
The most important criterion is the demonstration of a reduction of footprint; human-caused disturbance on the land is reduced in relation to the disturbance that would have occurred without integration. This means that measuring and monitoring should occur and be presented as part of the nomination package.
Nominations in this category must be observant and consistent with the Emerald Awards Criteria, as well, must demonstrate alignment to ILM Principles:
- Describe how there will be a reduction in land-use disturbances relative to what would have occurred in the absence of integrated efforts
- Describe how land users in the area affected by the proposed new activity have been identified and engaged, and their diverse interests, knowledge and values in the area have been considered.
- Have impacts on other land users been identified and addressed?
- Is the land use proposal supported by other land users? Where it isn’t supported, describe the efforts taken to address concerns.
- What are the identified social, cultural and environmental resources that will be affected throughout the lifecycle of the activity? How will these effects be addressed?
- What are the risks to stated values for land in the area? What is the management strategy used to address these risks?
- Describe how the best available knowledge, data, information, science, process and/or models have been used to support the proposed activity, and how this will be used to minimize the present and future footprint.
- How does the proposed activity demonstrate shared stewardship?
- Has the entire lifecycle of the activity, including reclamation activities upon closure, been considered or anticipated?
- Are potential future uses and interests been accommodated during the life of the activity and/or after the activity has concluded?
- How will you continuously improve tools and process, while identifying information gaps and other needs (adaptive management)? Describe the mechanisms for collecting feedback and learning, and how this is influences changes in management practices.
Additional Considerations
In addition to demonstrating ILM principles in action, the project must also demonstrate:
* that barriers (if any) were overcome and contributed to project learnings
* that the project process, application, planning, approach, technology or concepts were innovative and differed from business-as-usual.
* that the project communications have been clear and effective. How results were shared, how audiences were educated or how this work has lead by example. Can the process followed be used as a prototype for others to use in future footprint reduction projects?
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