Drawing on five detailed case studies from the American West, the authors explore and clarify how to expedite a transition toward adaptive governance and break the gridlock in natural resource policymaking. Unlike scientific management, which relies on science as the foundation for policies made through a central bureaucratic authority, adaptive governance integrates various types of knowledge and organizations. Adaptive governance relies on open decision-making processes recognizing multiple interests, community-based initiatives, and an integrative science in addition to traditional...
Drawing on five detailed case studies from the American West, the authors explore and clarify how to expedite a transition toward adaptive governance ...
Collaboration is increasingly favored over regulatory enforcement or litigation as a means to settle environmental conflicts, and government officials at all levels have been experimenting with collaboration in a wide variety of contexts. Yet questions remain about the best way to ensure that government involvement supports collaboration rather than introduces barriers. The goal of this thoughtful work is to analyze data from a variety of cases to explain how the different roles government plays in collaborative environmental management lead to different processes and outcomes. Looking at...
Collaboration is increasingly favored over regulatory enforcement or litigation as a means to settle environmental conflicts, and government officials...
Over the past three decades, governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations, often in partnership with nongovernmental organizations and communities, to try to address their environmental and natural resource management tasks. Many of these efforts have failed. Innovations, by definition, are transitory. How, then, can we establish new practices that endure?
Toddi A. Steelman argues that the key to successful and long-lasting innovation must be a realistic understanding of the challenges that face it. She examines three case...
Over the past three decades, governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations, often in partner...
