Foundations of evaluation for planetary health
| dc.contributor.author | Brousselle, Astrid | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-15T22:42:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-15T22:42:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description | Foundations of Evaluation for Planetary Health offers a comprehensive framework for reimagining evaluation in the context of polycrises. Grounded in the 2024 Earth Day Evaluation Declaration, the book integrates planetary health lenses across all major evaluation questions and steps, from logic models to logic analysis, effect analysis, and implementation analysis, economic evaluation, needs assessment, and monitoring. By embedding planetary health perspectives into mainstream evaluation methodologies, this textbook equips researchers, evaluators, and policymakers with theoretical foundations and practical tools to address environmental and social interdependence in the Anthropocene. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55058-736-4 (PDF) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55058-737-1 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55058-738-8 (ePub) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55058-739-5 (interactive PDF) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55058-740-1 (online book) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.18357/9781550587364 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22858 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Victoria Libraries | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | evaluation | |
| dc.subject | methodology | |
| dc.subject | methods | |
| dc.subject | Anthropocene | |
| dc.subject | planetary health | |
| dc.subject | evaluation theory | |
| dc.subject.department | School of Public Administration | |
| dc.title | Foundations of evaluation for planetary health | |
| dc.type | Book |
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- About the Hummingbird Drawing What do you do on your day-to-day when you are happy, sad, or when you need to keep your mind busy? Personally, I play music and I draw. Arts have always been part of my life and of who I am. Not that I pretend to be an artist or even think that I am good at it. I just do it. It’s also how I find resiliency in this difficult world where I feel we are neither doing the right things nor doing things right. Throughout my life, I have played the piano and the saxophone and I play the clarinet. I have also been part of a Gamelan (music from Bali) and played organ in an experimental bike orchestra. I am now learning the accordion. I have played music from different parts of the world: classical and traditional music from Europe and Bali, as well as klezmer music, little jazz pieces, and Latin American music, for example. Drawing has always been part of who I am too. When I was a teenager, I painted very sad faces that nobody liked (except my mother) because they were too scary. I have doodled all my life, mostly to stay focused when listening to someone. And from time to time, I have had periods of intense drawing. I love using oil pastels for the intensity of their colours. In recent years, I have been drawing animals such as crows, fish, herons, sea otters, hummingbirds, octopuses, orcas, etc. I was born and raised in France and moved to Montreal, Canada, when I was just 18. I have lived in Quebec for most of my life and moved to Victoria, British Columbia, at the very end of 2017. In Victoria, deer come into my garden to sleep. They also eat everything I plant, and I have given up on gardening; I just let things grow as they want! Birds also come, small and big, from hummingbirds to bushtits, crows, owls, and eagles. When I go snorkelling, I am amazed by the vivid colours of sea urchins, seaweeds, and starfish. And sometimes a sea lion, a seal, or just a bird will come to say “hi” underwater. When I am sailing, orcas and humpbacks swim in the same areas. So, after arriving in BC, I started to draw more animals. I wanted to celebrate their colours, they are so beautiful! When I start a drawing, I pick three colours that I find match well and start with them. I then experiment according to the inspiration of the moment. For this hummingbird that I chose for my book cover, I picked green and some variations of pink/red. For the wings, I tried to create an optical illusion to give an impression of movement. You know how hummingbirds move their wings so fast! I can’t say that I was successful here, as the result looks more like a tapestry than something moving fast! That’s life! For the head, I applied a technique usually used in watercolour, where the artist always leaves a blank space between the fill and the contour. Then I added the big bubbles as an explosion of colours associated with flowers. I chose this drawing for my book cover because I included a prologue about the hummingbird fable. I then drew hummingbirds for each chapter as a small reminder that we all can become hummingbirds in our communities and bring positive change, even if sometimes desperately small. I wrote this book with the intention of equipping the community of evaluators with new approaches to create a better world for all. I published it in Open Access with the help and support of the University of Victoria librarians to make it widely accessible. I wanted to make it inclusive and accessible. I try to walk the talk of the values I defend. As a non-Indigenous person who has lived in and values very diverse and different cultural contexts, this book has been created from who I am, what I have learnt, and what I have been exposed to. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I will be happy to meet with you and chat! Sincerely, Astrid Brousselle
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