Evolving paradigms for landscape-scale renewable resource management in the United States

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• 作者：Mullner ; Scott A. ; Hubert ; Wayne A. ; Wesche ; Thomas A.
• 关键词：Collaboration ; Collaborative management ; Stakeholder participation ; Management paradigms ; Renewable resource management ; Landscape-scale
• 刊名：Environmental Science and Policy
• 出版年：2001
• 出版时间：February, 2001
• 年：2001
• 卷：4
• 期：1
• 页码：39-49
• 全文大小：126 K

文摘

Patterns of selection and evolution of renewable resource management paradigms appear when strategies are considered across a temporal scale. The roles of renewable resource managers were established during the early twentieth century and have since evolved. Autocratic natural-science-based management (ANM) of renewable resources was institutionalized in the early twentieth century following the principle of management based on science with administrative decisions by professional agency employees. A more recent form of management paradigm is interactive natural-science-based management (INM) which provides for limited stakeholder involvement in the decision-making process. These historic paradigms often inadequately addressed social and political aspects of renewable resource management leading managers to adopt new management paradigms involving communications and negotiations among stakeholders, not just science and administrative decisions. The inability of either ANM or INM paradigms to win uncontested agency and public acceptance, coupled with demands to increase spatial scales of management and public (stakeholder) involvement, is providing impetus for emergence of a new paradigm. The evolving paradigm can be defined as collaborative natural- and social-science-based management (CNSM) and provides a framework for approaching and finding solutions to landscape-scale problems. Successful evolution of this paradigm will require removing barriers to societal involvement in management decision-making institutionalized over the past century.