Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2223490
Evan M. Mistur
Abstract While stakeholder engagement can benefit managers, its implications for decision-making are not well understood. Integrating literature on stakeholder engagement and institutional theory, this paper investigates the ramifications of stakeholder involvement on organizational decision-making. It employs a qualitative comparative case study of agency managers and stakeholders involved in sea turtle management at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to investigate the motivations and goals of different organizational actors. The results demonstrate that stakeholders can be prone to target fixation, focusing on different goals than their organization intends. Furthermore, they reveal that stakeholders’ motivations are highly resistant to attempts to align them with organizational goals, creating goal misalignment which can disrupt decision-making. These findings provide a more holistic understanding of how stakeholder engagement influences organizational management processes, formalizes how target fixation operates at the individual level, and provides critical information for administrators deciding how to utilize engagement strategies in their work.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2220110
Muhammad Usman Amin Siddiqi, E. Wolters
Abstract Earlier research suggests social identity’s association with environmental attitudes and behaviors and identifies several social-identity-based strategies that can potentially foster pro-environment behaviors. This paper examines whether and how social identities are associated with support for pro-environment policies. Using our survey of 1,804 randomly selected respondents, we seek to analyze how group identities are associated with demographic characteristics and value orientations of citizens in the American West, and how these group identities are associated with support for policies aimed at resource development (supply expansion) versus conservation (demand reduction) of energy and water resources. Findings from cluster analysis and binary logistic regression models indicate a significant association between social identity and policy preferences. Respondents who strongly identify themselves as environmentalists, conservationists, and wildlife advocates are more likely to support conservation policies and less likely to support resource development policies compared to those who strongly identify as hunters, fishers, and property rights activists.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2220119
Marc Healy, Nicholas Geron, Richard W. Harper, John Rogan, Deborah G. Martin, Lara A. Roman
The success of public trees planted in urban areas by tree planting initiatives (TPIs) depends on how well the new trees fit into existing municipal structures and capacities. We sought to understand municipal management of trees in mid-sized towns through a case study in Massachusetts (US) involving a state-funded and state-managed TPI. Data was collected through structured interviews with tree wardens (municipal urban forest managers) to understand the various impacts that maintenance practices, municipal support and funding, and departmental structure may have on recently planted trees. In this Massachusetts program, municipal structure influenced the number of proactive management practices as well as the size of the tree activity budget. Consideration of municipal department roles and structure by TPIs may allow for more effective implementation of these initiatives. Our study begins to fill a research gap regarding small to mid-size municipalities and their role in tree planting and maintenance.
{"title":"Urban Forest Management Motivations and Practices in Relation to a Large-Scale Tree Planting Initiative","authors":"Marc Healy, Nicholas Geron, Richard W. Harper, John Rogan, Deborah G. Martin, Lara A. Roman","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2220119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2220119","url":null,"abstract":"The success of public trees planted in urban areas by tree planting initiatives (TPIs) depends on how well the new trees fit into existing municipal structures and capacities. We sought to understand municipal management of trees in mid-sized towns through a case study in Massachusetts (US) involving a state-funded and state-managed TPI. Data was collected through structured interviews with tree wardens (municipal urban forest managers) to understand the various impacts that maintenance practices, municipal support and funding, and departmental structure may have on recently planted trees. In this Massachusetts program, municipal structure influenced the number of proactive management practices as well as the size of the tree activity budget. Consideration of municipal department roles and structure by TPIs may allow for more effective implementation of these initiatives. Our study begins to fill a research gap regarding small to mid-size municipalities and their role in tree planting and maintenance.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135269027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2212363
Grete Gansauer, Julia H. Haggerty, J. Dunn
Abstract Recent waves of U.S. federal waterworks investments aim to repair material as well as socioeconomic deficits. Yet a growing recognition of the central role of local capacity in successful water resources and infrastructure governance raises questions about the extent to which such investments will engender more resilient rural communities. Synthesizing resilience theory with the drinking water governance literature, we use qualitative methods to assess the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of public water system governance in a case study of six small towns in an agricultural region. We find that shortfalls in local social and economic capital constrain localities from adapting to environmental vulnerabilities, and that the current policy environment exacerbates—rather than ameliorates—tradeoffs between community capitals. In addition to funding increases for rural infrastructure deficits, this study implies that process reform in water quality compliance and financial assistance program delivery will also be needed to bolster rural community resilience.
{"title":"Public Water System Governance in Rural Montana, USA: A ‘Slow drip’ on Community Resilience","authors":"Grete Gansauer, Julia H. Haggerty, J. Dunn","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2212363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2212363","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent waves of U.S. federal waterworks investments aim to repair material as well as socioeconomic deficits. Yet a growing recognition of the central role of local capacity in successful water resources and infrastructure governance raises questions about the extent to which such investments will engender more resilient rural communities. Synthesizing resilience theory with the drinking water governance literature, we use qualitative methods to assess the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of public water system governance in a case study of six small towns in an agricultural region. We find that shortfalls in local social and economic capital constrain localities from adapting to environmental vulnerabilities, and that the current policy environment exacerbates—rather than ameliorates—tradeoffs between community capitals. In addition to funding increases for rural infrastructure deficits, this study implies that process reform in water quality compliance and financial assistance program delivery will also be needed to bolster rural community resilience.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78133406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2212286
P. Matczak, J. Frankowski, Renata Putkowska-Smoter, Michał Wróblewski, Iwo Łoś
Abstract According to the World Health Organization, 36 out of the 50 most polluted cities in the EU in 2018 were in Poland. In response to public pressure and supranational obligations, the state-led, household-oriented energy retrofit Clean Air Priority Program (CAPP) was launched in 2018. We investigate how the Polish state, local actors, and market organizations within this program dynamically compete and cooperate to enforce their agendas. Using in-depth interviews, secondary sources, and applying the Policy Arrangements Approach (PAA), we explore discursive and institutional tensions between central and local, as well as public and private actors’ objectives which fostered and complemented the rationale of the program’s air quality with ‘low-carbon’ policy goals. We highlight that pressure from grassroots groups, external power, and leadership can overcome differences in priority agendas by borrowing elements of stakeholders’ norms and discourses.
{"title":"Tackling (Not Only) Air Pollution: Cross-sectional Tensions behind State-led Energy Retrofit Program in Poland","authors":"P. Matczak, J. Frankowski, Renata Putkowska-Smoter, Michał Wróblewski, Iwo Łoś","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2212286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2212286","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract According to the World Health Organization, 36 out of the 50 most polluted cities in the EU in 2018 were in Poland. In response to public pressure and supranational obligations, the state-led, household-oriented energy retrofit Clean Air Priority Program (CAPP) was launched in 2018. We investigate how the Polish state, local actors, and market organizations within this program dynamically compete and cooperate to enforce their agendas. Using in-depth interviews, secondary sources, and applying the Policy Arrangements Approach (PAA), we explore discursive and institutional tensions between central and local, as well as public and private actors’ objectives which fostered and complemented the rationale of the program’s air quality with ‘low-carbon’ policy goals. We highlight that pressure from grassroots groups, external power, and leadership can overcome differences in priority agendas by borrowing elements of stakeholders’ norms and discourses.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47743513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2201811
Juan Sebastián Vélez Triana
Abstract This paper investigates the ontological and material dimensions of peasant struggles in Colombian northwestern Amazonia in a context of increasing international deforestation concerns that press the Colombian government to enforce protected areas through military campaigns and market-based conservation programs. Building on ethnographic research in the region, the paper contributes to ongoing debates in the field of political ecology about the ontological dimension of dispossessions and social struggles. It brings together ontological studies with a perspective of critical geography to propose an integrative political ecology of socio-environmental conflicts that addresses the material and the ontological dimensions of domination and resistance.
{"title":"Political Ontologies of Colombian Amazonia: Peasant Resistance in Protected Areas","authors":"Juan Sebastián Vélez Triana","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2201811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2201811","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the ontological and material dimensions of peasant struggles in Colombian northwestern Amazonia in a context of increasing international deforestation concerns that press the Colombian government to enforce protected areas through military campaigns and market-based conservation programs. Building on ethnographic research in the region, the paper contributes to ongoing debates in the field of political ecology about the ontological dimension of dispossessions and social struggles. It brings together ontological studies with a perspective of critical geography to propose an integrative political ecology of socio-environmental conflicts that addresses the material and the ontological dimensions of domination and resistance.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47714335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-13DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2212238
Feng Hao, Wanyun Shao, J. Michaels
Abstract Climate change is one major challenge that has brought substantial costs to the United States. To implement mitigation measures and gain public support, it is critical to understand Americans’ attitudes toward this issue. Our study investigates how carbon dependency, social capital, and political orientation influence public response to climate change by perceiving its threat, changing behaviors, and supporting policies. We first build an integrative paradigm to explore the theoretical connections. Next, we employ data from different sources to measure these key concepts at individual and state levels and then estimate the relationships empirically. Multilevel regression results show that carbon dependency inhibits public response while social capital enhances such response. Democrats and liberals are motivated to respond and residents of Democratic Party controlled states are also more likely to believe in climate change and perceive the risk than their counterparts. These factors can be leveraged to mobilize public engagement in climate activism.
{"title":"A Study of American Response to Climate Change and the Influence of Carbon Dependency, Social Capital, and Political Orientation","authors":"Feng Hao, Wanyun Shao, J. Michaels","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2212238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2212238","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Climate change is one major challenge that has brought substantial costs to the United States. To implement mitigation measures and gain public support, it is critical to understand Americans’ attitudes toward this issue. Our study investigates how carbon dependency, social capital, and political orientation influence public response to climate change by perceiving its threat, changing behaviors, and supporting policies. We first build an integrative paradigm to explore the theoretical connections. Next, we employ data from different sources to measure these key concepts at individual and state levels and then estimate the relationships empirically. Multilevel regression results show that carbon dependency inhibits public response while social capital enhances such response. Democrats and liberals are motivated to respond and residents of Democratic Party controlled states are also more likely to believe in climate change and perceive the risk than their counterparts. These factors can be leveraged to mobilize public engagement in climate activism.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2209789
Sanna Komi, Anja Nygren
Abstract Given the widespread failure of anthropocentric approaches to wildlife conservation, questions of conviviality have become increasingly important for conservation efforts. We propose that political-ecological conceptualizations of other-than-human perspectives offer promising avenues for fostering more just and sustainable human-wildlife interactions. To explore these issues, we investigate wolf conservation in northeastern Finland, focusing on the contested coexistence of humans and wolves. Our study draws on data obtained through interviews and participant observation with local residents, interviews with wolf behavior researchers, and analysis of policy documents. Our findings highlight the fundamental roles of power and responsibility in human-wildlife coexistence, as well as the importance of attending to wolves’ intrinsic patterns of behavior. We argue for the value of distinguishing between human agency and other-than-human actions, as attributing intentional agency to wolves can obscure important aspects of human responsibility, political decision-making, and power dynamics at the intersections of humans and other-than-humans.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2207166
A. Stark, F. Gale, H. Murphy‐Gregory
Abstract As the world grapples with the issue of climate change, and efforts to decarbonize economies result in a shift from extractive “brown” industries to sustainable “green” ones, there is an increasing recognition of the need for this transition to be a just and equitable one. This systematic review of the Just Transitions literature examines the centrality of justice theory as well as the implications of the relative ambiguity with which governance models and theory have been conceptualized. Situating justice and governance theory in the Just Transitions concept, they are used to describe the “why” (justice) and the “how” (governance of transitions) of Just Transitions, and how these relate to the “what” (worker retraining, early retirement, regional development programmes, and so forth). The relatively poor articulation of the governance component within the Just Transitions concept is an opportunity for future academic examination.
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