Implementing Innovation: Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance Contributor(s): Steelman, Toddi A. (Author), Steelman, Toddi A. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1589016270 ISBN-13: 9781589016279 Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2010 Click for more in this series: Public Management and Change |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration |
Dewey: 333.72 |
LCCN: 2009024525 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Series: Public Management and Change |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" L (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 studies--land management in Colorado, watershed management in West Virginia, and timber management in New Mexico--and reveals specific patterns of implementation success and failure. Steelman challenges conventional wisdom about the role of individual entrepreneurs in innovative practice. She highlights the institutional obstacles that impede innovation and its longer term implementation, while offering practical insight in how enduring change might be achieved. |
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