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Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making
Ronald Brunner
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Description for Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making
Hardback. Adaptive governance integrates various types of knowledge and organizations. It relies on open decision-making processes recognizing multiple interests, community-based initiatives, and an integrative science in addition to traditional science. This book explores how to expedite a transition toward adaptive governance. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JPQB; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136242
SKU
V9780231136242
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About Ronald Brunner
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making
This guide should prove worthwhile for both public officials and private citizens. High Country News Recommended. Choice Anyone interested in the use of ERD in environmental and natural resources management... will find these books useful. Perspectives on Polotics ...highly relevant in the context of the current search for effective guidance on participatory and deliberative policy-making... Local Government Studies