Policy windows, policy change, and organizational learning: watersheds in the evolution of watershed management.

Abstract:

:Employing in-depth, elite interviews, this empirical research contributes to understanding the dynamics among policy windows, policy change, and organizational learning. First, although much of the research on agenda setting-how issues attract enough attention that action is taken to address them-has been conducted at the national scale, this work explores the subnational, regional scale. With decentralization, regional-scale environmental decision-making has become increasingly important. Second, this research highlights the role of policy windows and instances of related organizational learning identified by natural resources managers. Having practitioners identify focusing events contrasts with the more typical approach of the researcher identifying a particular focusing event or events to investigate. A focusing event is a sudden, exceptional experience that, because of how it leads to harm or exposes the prospect for great devastation, is perceived as the impetus for policy change.

journal_name

Environ Manage

journal_title

Environmental management

authors

Michaels S,Goucher NP,McCarthy D

doi

10.1007/s00267-005-0269-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-12-01 00:00:00

pages

983-92

issue

6

eissn

0364-152X

issn

1432-1009

journal_volume

38

pub_type

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