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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Policy sciences"”.
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Standing closest to the flame: Community wildfire planning and the Healthy Forest Act
<p>Recently, national fire policy has been redirected from a primary focus on suppression towards a more integrated and comprehensive approach developed at the community level. As part of this policy shift, Congress passed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (P.L. 108-148) in 2003 encouraging …
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What Will It Take to Standardize Consideration of the Natural Environment in Social Work in Saskatchewan?
… the uneven ways in which this has translated in policy, education, and practice in Saskatchewan. The goals of this study were to understand the gaps that exist between the literature and social work policy, education, and practice in Saskatchewan, and to make recommendations for addressing these …
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The local land use process in New Hampshire: Does it contribute to sprawl?
… to manage problems associated with growth. The policy decision process employed to develop these policy responses is a complex process of social and political interactions. These decisions and processes are rooted in the community master plan. The master plan serves as the blueprint for a …
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Backcountry campsite conditions assessed for limits of acceptable change planning in Shenandoah National Park
Practicing science in a policy context demands careful attention. This research presents backcountry campsite conditions found in Shenandoah National Park during 1992. It fuels a policy process grounded in Limits-of-Acceptable-Change (LAC). This context provides an opportunity to critique natural …
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The Implications of Wicked Problems for the Legitimacy of European Environmental Policy Development. The case of Environmental Risks from the Pharmaceutical Endocrine Disrupter, 17α-Ethinyl Oestradiol under the European Water Framework Directive
… options. At the present time, environmental policy for EE2 and other endocrine disrupters remains resolutely ineffective. Despite three distinct policy interventions recommending precautionary action for EE2 during the past twenty years, emissions of this potent, oestrogenic endocrine …
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Can we get there from here? Ecosystem based governance in the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine region
… margin. This study uses the framework of the Policy Sciences to suggest a model of Problem Orientation, Social Process, and Decision Process characteristics indicative of an ideal ecosystem-based approach to governance. The model is first used to analyze the governance regime that existed in …
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The long journey to become 'the river of national unity': The Sao Francisco river basin from 1940s to 2008 and the interactions of environment, government and local citizens
… A new legal instrument, the 1997 Water Policy, introduced a novel form of management regarding public participation, policy goals and ways of achieving them. The new policy mandates participation of multiple stakeholders' groups in the governance of the water resources of Brazil bounded …
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Elite capture and forest governance in India
… from political science, political ecology, policy sciences and natural resource governance literature to conclude, elite capture is reduced when (i) state or external interventions adopt a pro-poor targeted approach, and (ii) autonomous counter power has emerged in the form of individuals or …
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Experimental Democracy - Collective Intelligence for a Diverse and Complex World
… is one that realizes an experimental method of policy-making directed at solving problems, such that we can expect it to make progress over time, even though we cannot rule out that it will get things wrong - possibly even frequently. I also show how democracy may best realize such an …
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Adaptive water governance: flood management and the policy process in Scotland
… of adaptive water governance in the policy process, and draws lessons of policy relevance for flood management. Scholars using the concept of adaptive water governance posit that factors influencing the governing activities of social actors are of critical importance to improve …
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The Prospects of State Directed Reform in Education
The problem. To improve policymaking in Iowa, the intent of this study was to inform legislators and others in the policy process about the implementation of this state's accountability legislation. This study was one of seven funded by the FINE Foundation in support of this goal. Specifically, the …