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Collaborative Environmental Management

What Roles for Government-1

By: Tomas M. Koontz,Toddi A. Steelman,JoAnn Carmin,Katrina Smith Korfmacher,Cassandra Moseley,Craig W. Thomas

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Collaborative Environmental Management

What Roles for Government-1

By: Tomas M. Koontz,Toddi A. Steelman,JoAnn Carmin,Katrina Smith Korfmacher,Cassandra Moseley,Craig W. Thomas

Collaboration has become a popular approach to environmental policy, planning, and management. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, and industry, government officials at all levels have experimented with collaboration. Yet questions remain about the roles that governments play in collaboration--whether they are constructive and support collaboration, or introduce barriers. This thoughtful book analyzes a series of cases to understand how collaborative processes work and whether government can be an equal partner even as government agencies often formally control decision making and are held accountable for the outcomes. Looking at examples where government has led, encouraged, or followed in collaboration, the authors assess how governmental actors and institutions affected the way issues were defined, the resources available for collaboration, and the organizational processes and structures that were established. Cases include collaborative efforts to manage watersheds, rivers, estuaries, farmland, endangered species habitats, and forests. The authors develop a new theoretical framework and demonstrate that government left a heavy imprint in each of the efforts. The work concludes by discussing the choices and challenges faced by governmental institutions and actors as they try to realize the potential of collaborative environmental management.

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209

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ISBN 10

1136526897

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9781136526893

Federalism in the Forest

National versus State Natural Resource Policy

By: Tomas M. Koontz

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Federalism in the Forest

National versus State Natural Resource Policy

By: Tomas M. Koontz

A love for nature and the forest drew Tomas Koontz to develop a keen interest in the workings of public forest management and forest policy. Beyond policy, however, this book is also about the very human issues of federalism, decentralization of control over public lands, citizen participation, and how agency policies, both state and federal, are formulated and exercised. Federalism in the Forest is the first book to examine and compare public policy performance across both state and national levels, explaining why state agencies excel at economic outputs and profitability, the management of land with state income in mind-while national agencies are stronger in citizen participation and the inarguably important role of environmental protection. Instead of focusing on historical development of federal-state roles or on state officials as affected by national polices, Koontz shows how officials, when given authority, both make and implement policy at the state versus the national level. Although arguments fly about the decentralization of public lands-most often based on ideology-Koontz offers empirical evidence that demonstrates not only that devolution matters, but how.

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252

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Georgetown University Press

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1589013220

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9781589013223