Implementing innovation : fostering enduring change in environmental and natural resource governance / Toddi A. Steelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steelman, Toddi A.

Series:

Public management and change.

Public management and change series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--United States.

Conservation of natural resources.

Forest policy--United States.

Forest policy.

Soil management--Government policy--United States.

Soil management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589016705

158901670X

OCLC:

650310488