Implementing Innovation ─ Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance

Steelman (Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University) provides insight into the forces the affect innovations in environmental and natural resource govnernance. The conceptual framework presented combines ideas from public management, policy studies, and implementation, which all deal in concrete realities, with ideas from institutional theory, which deals with broader formal and informal forces that shape individual action and the response to change. The book begins with an overview of innovation, implementation, and institutions, then outlines the evolution of environmental and natural resource govnernance. Chapters on alignment and misalignment of institutional characteristics use examples of land, watershed, and forest management. A final chapter discusses how to foster enduring change. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Toddi A. Steelman is an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. She is coauthor ofAdaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making and Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government?