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Author Steelman, Toddi A

Title Implementing innovation : fostering enduring change in environmental and natural resource governance / Toddi A. Steelman
Published Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations
Series Public management and change series
Public management and change.
Contents Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Innovation, Implementation, and Institutions; Chapter 2 The Evolution of Environmentaland Natural Resource Governance; Chapter 3 Aligning InstitutionalCharacteristics; Chapter 4 Intermittent Alignment ofInstitutional Characteristics; Chapter 5 Misalignment ofInstitutional Characteristics; Chapter 6 Fostering Enduring Change; Index
Summary 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 studiesùland ma
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Environmental policy -- United States
Conservation of natural resources -- Government policy -- United States
Forest policy -- United States
Soil management -- Government policy -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Conservation of natural resources -- Government policy
Environmental policy
Forest policy
Soil management -- Government policy
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009024525
ISBN 9781589016705
158901670X
1589016270
9781589016279