This list of resources and references is designed to provide assistance to those interested in writing decision based case studies for use in training and teaching. This list was created to facilitate building a library of fishery management teaching case studies, one of the priority strategies of the Training Managers for 21st Century Fisheries initiative.

Please submit suggestions to Laurie Jodice (jodicel@yahoo.com)

ONLINE RESOURCES

• Case Method Institute <www.casewriting.org> - offers a comprehensive range of custom and open-enrollment case-teaching and case-writing faculty development workshops. The website also has several case writing resources


• European Case Clearinghouse <www.ecch.com>
• CasePlace.org <www.caseplace.org> - free, practical on-line resource for up-to-date case studies, syllabi, and innovative teaching materials on business and sustainability - from corporate governance to sustainable development.
• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science <ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html> Includes links to several other online resources; includes discussion of case method teaching in science.
• Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Case website <www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/> Includes case teaching resources.

CASE WRITING & TEACHING REFERENCES

Barnes, L. B.; Christensen, C. R.; and Hansen, A.J., 1994. Teaching and the Case Method, Harvard Business School Press.

Naumes, W. and Maumes, M.J. 1999. The Art & Craft of Case Writing. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 234p. (excellent in-depth discussion of how to write a teaching case)

Wylie, D. 2006. Adventures in Case Writing, 2nd Edition. Available from: Case Method Institute Press, 566 School Street, Carlisle, MA 01742 or wylie@babson.edu. (simple, easy to read guide)

Yin, R.K. 2003. Case Study Research: Design and Methods, 3rd edition. SAGE Publications. 181p. (this book discusses case study as a qualitative research method; it is not how to write a teaching case)

Learning Theory and Case Teaching

John Burgoyne and Alan Mumford. 2001. Learning from the Case Method. Report submitted to the European Case Clearinghouse. The aim of the project was to infer which theoretical perspectives make most sense of the application of the case method, and to suggest how applications might be improved.Executive summary (File size: 108k) Full report (File size: 368k)

O'Hare, M. 2006. Pedagogy for Policy Analysis and Management. Paper presented at the Associaton for Public Policy Analysis and Management Spring Conference (June 15-17, 2006), The Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah.

Natural Resource Teaching Cases from other disciplines:

Dovciak, A.L. and J.A. Perry. 2000. Whose watershed is this? A decision case study of agricultural drainage in the midwestern USA. Journal of Natural Resources Life Science Education. 29: 95-101.

Munsell, B.R., L.W. Van Tassell and M.A. Smith. 1999. The case of the Harmony Basin grazing allotment. Journal of Natural Resources Life Science Education. 28: 41-47.

MacKay, D.G., M.A. Kilgore, and Ellefson, P.V. 1998. Building consensus on timber harvesting in Minnesota: A decision case study. Journal of Natural Resources Life Science Education. 27:1-7.

Decision-making under uncertainty:
Uncertainty is inherent to fisheries management decision-making and an important principle for structuring teaching case studies used to train fisheries managers. The following papers have been submitted to help inform case study writers focusing on decision-making under uncertainty.

• C. J. Corkett, 2002. Fish stock assessment as a non-falsifiable science: replacing an inductive and instrumental view with a critical rational one. Fisheries Research 56 (2002) 117-123

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