Implementing innovation : fostering enduring change in environmental and natural resource governance /

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 effor...

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Main Author: Steelman, Toddi A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2010
Series:Public management and change.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781589016705
158901670X
1589016270
9781589016279
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.