Adaptive Governance
Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making
1st Edition
Published on 10. August 2005
368 pages
978-0-231-50987-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 science.
Case studies discussed include a program to protect endangered fish in the Colorado River with the active participation of water developers and environmentalists; a district ranger's innovative plan to manage national forestland in northern New Mexico; and how community-based forestry groups are affecting legislative change in Washington, D.C.
Case studies discussed include a program to protect endangered fish in the Colorado River with the active participation of water developers and environmentalists; a district ranger's innovative plan to manage national forestland in northern New Mexico; and how community-based forestry groups are affecting legislative change in Washington, D.C.
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Ronald Brunner | Toddi Steelman | Lindy Coe-Juell
Adaptive Governance
Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making
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Ronald Brunner | Toddi Steelman | Lindy Coe-Juell
Adaptive Governance
Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making
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08/2005
Columbia University Press
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Persons
Ronald D. Brunner is a policy scientist and professor at the University of Colorado; Toddi A. Steelman is associate professor of environmental and natural resource policy at North Carolina State University; Lindy Coe-Juell is a policy analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Los Angeles; Christina M. Cromley is a policy analyst with the GAO in Washington, D. C.; Christine M. Edwards is the alumni coordinator for the School for Field Studies in Salem, Massachusetts; Donna W. Tucker is a doctoral student in environmental studies at the University of Colorado.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Beyond Scientific Management
- 2. The 15-Mile Reach: Let the Fish Tell Us
- 3. The Camino Real: To Care for the Land and Serve the People
- 4. Grassbanks: Diffusion and Adaptation from the Radical Center
- 5. The Oregon Plan: A New Way of Doing Business
- 6. Community-Based Forestry Goes to Washington
- 7. Toward Adaptive Governance
- Index
