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Resource managers as policy entrepreneurs: Governance challenges of the urban-forest interface
| Author: |
Shannon, Margaret A. |
| Date: |
1991 |
| Periodical: |
Journal of Forestry |
| Abstract: |
Governing in the urban-forest interface has challenged our traditional institutions because the policy stakeholders do not fit neatly into residentially defined polities. Nor are these stakeholders specific to any particular agency or problem. The essence of the interface context is that overlapping, interdependent polities must be organized around a common future and with continuous interaction across many diverse policy questions. Policy communities need to develop a shared vision of how land should be used, how environmental quality should be maintained, and what the responsibilities of individuals and agencies should be in realizing a common future. Through the civic conversations necessary to formulate answers to these questions, individuals become conscious of their role as citizens and individual valuations can become collective values. |
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