The evolving role of government in the adaptive governance of freshwater social-ecological systems in the western US
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 77, S. 40-48
ISSN: 1462-9011
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In: Environmental science & policy, Band 77, S. 40-48
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Review of policy research, Band 36, Heft 6, S. 781-804
ISSN: 1541-1338
AbstractIncreasingly severe wildfires have focused attention on forested watershed vulnerabilities, causing significant changes to policies and governance. We utilized the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) to understand institutional innovations of federal agency–large water provider partnerships in Colorado to protect watersheds through joint planning and funding. Ambiguous problem definition and focusing events were significant aspects of these partnerships. We interviewed individuals in the partnerships, with MSA ideas of how solutions to policy problems develop, and the role of policy entrepreneurs. We found that wildfires served as focusing events, creating space and time for learning, collaboration and new problem framing, increased political attention, and institutional innovation. In this study, windows of opportunity stayed open longer, policy entrepreneurs and agencies played larger roles in communication and coupling streams and the context of fast‐moving, unpredictable ecological crises changed responses to issues. Our findings also have implications for broader policy studies and environmental governance scholarship.
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 22, Heft 4
ISSN: 1708-3087
In: Journal of risk research: the official journal of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe and the Society for Risk Analysis Japan, Band 25, Heft 6, S. 697-714
ISSN: 1466-4461
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 24, Heft 1
ISSN: 1708-3087
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 22, Heft 1
ISSN: 1708-3087