Organizational Structure and Institutional Support for USDA Forest Service Partnerships

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  • Author : Lori A. Barrow
  • Release Date : 2012
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  • Pages : 350
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  • File Size : 88,88 MB
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Organizational Structure and Institutional Support for USDA Forest Service Partnerships by Lori A. Barrow PDF Summary

Book Description: In an era of constrained appropriations and increasingly complex social and environmental challenges, partnerships have become an essential tool for public land management agencies, such as the USDA Forest Service (USFS), to accomplish critical tasks, meet management goals, and enhance service delivery. Despite the growing practice and reliance on partnerships as an alternative management strategy, few empirical assessments of this management approach have been conducted, and knowledge is limited regarding the structure and function of these relationships. Therefore, the goals of this study were to expand the established partnership knowledge base by systematically examining the institutional characteristics necessary to foster a vibrant partnership culture, uncovering and documenting the various partnership structural types being utilized, and determining whether or not institutional characteristics or external environment characteristics are related to the partnership approach utilized by USFS personnel. Data collected clearly document a steady increase in the reliance of partnerships as a management strategy in recreation and resource service delivery. As the partnership phenomenon continues to be espoused by the USFS as an innovative and alternative management strategy, this thesis provides agency personnels' depiction of the agency's capacity to engage and support partnerships at multiple administrative levels and on different national forests, and helps build the foundation for managing national forests through partnerships.

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