Climate-Change Communication Within Public Natural Resource Agencies: Lessons Learned From the U.S. Forest Service

Laatsch, Jamie; Ma, Zhao

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1107790

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“…Verbal and informal mechanisms are some of the most powerful means of transmitting messages on climate change [47,48]. Recent studies suggest that this is best achieved when issues directly relevant to communities are linked to climate change, such as on improving quality of life and the capacity of neighbourhoods to recover from threats and respond to change [49].…”

Section: Build Narratives About Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Fazey

Carmen

Chapin

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Ten essentials are presented for community resilience initiatives in the context of achieving a 1.5 o C world: Enhance adaptability; take account of shocks and stresses; work horizontally across issues; work vertically across social scales; aggressively reduce carbon emissions; build narratives about climate change; engage directly with futures; focus on climate disadvantage; focus on processes and pathways; and encourage transformations for resilience. Together the essentials highlight that resilience initiatives seeking to retain the status quo will be detrimental when they enable societies to cling to unsustainable activities. Instead, climate resilience initiatives need to be viewed more as a process of transformative social change, where learning, power, inequities and relationships matter. Finally, there is an urgent need for researchers to shift focus away from examining the nature of resilience to accelerating learning about fostering resilience in practice.

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Section: Build Narratives About Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Fazey

Carmen

Chapin

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…By the mid‐2000s, the USFS was showing one of the lowest employee satisfaction levels of any government agency (Partnership for Public Service ); it was losing approximately 25 percent of the lawsuits brought against it, indicating that it no longer consistently followed the law (Keele et al ); and it suffered from high levels of confusion over the agency mission (Dialogos ) and criticism for its organizational capacity (Auer et al ). In contrast to Kaufman's free flow of information upward through the hierarchy, a recent survey found that USFS employees have little confidence in their ability to influence agency leadership (Laatsch and Ma ). Taken together, these studies show an agency in which field officials no longer consistently comply with the letter of the law or the intentions of their organizational supervisors.…”

Section: The Missing Political Contextmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…As a result, the agency has seen flat or declining budgets for most of the last two decades, while fire suppression activities have taken up an increasing and unpredictable portion of the budget, leading to dramatic declines in the organization's ability to undertake basic management tasks (USFS ; Vilsack ). Furthermore, it appears that the USFS's fractured mandate, a result of conflict over agency goals, has inhibited the agency's ability to adapt to increasing fire frequency and severity (Fleming, McCartha, and Steelman ; Reiners ) and other emerging challenges (Laatsch and Ma ).…”

Section: The Missing Political Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning Kaufman: How Cross‐Level Political Coalitions Interact with Organizational Structure

Fleischman

2017

Public Administration Review

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Herbert Kaufman ' s The Forest Ranger is considered a landmark study of how organizations can be structured to elicit compliance from field officials, yet there have been few attempts to validate Kaufman ' s claims. The author argues that the outcomes observed by Kaufman resulted from interplay between organizational structure and political context-a variable that Kaufman ignored. This argument is supported by case studies of two agencies with structures similar to Kaufman ' s U.S. Forest Service but poorer outcomes: the same agency today and India ' s forest departments. Both differences in organizational structure and poorer outcomes are found to be the result of political context. Specifically, coalitions assembled around agencies use the implementation process to shape outcomes in ways that could not be accomplished solely through changing laws or formal administrative structure. This points to the importance of building supportive field-level coalitions to complement administrative reforms. Practitioner Points• Political context, including the degree of public consensus over goals and levels of corruption, plays an important role in shaping organizational outcomes. • Interplay between political context and organizational structure is more important than the internal structure of an organization alone. • Successful administrative reforms require building supportive political coalitions.

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“…The relation between the social dimension and social development (205 studies) belongs to public administration's concern about social responsibility [130,131]. In the area of education, worthy of mention are studies focusing on educational policies [70,132], higher education [133,134], leadership [135], and knowledge transfer [136,137]. Research on the tourism sector and the environmental dimension has increased in the last decade and portrays authors' concern about environmentally responsible behavior [138,139], business behavior [140,141], and more.…”

Section: Qualitative Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Administration and Values Oriented to Sustainability: A Systematic Approach to the Literature

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Values guide actions and judgements, form the basis of attitudinal and behavioral processes, and have an impact on leaders’ decision-making, contributing to more sustainable performance. Through a bibliometric study and content analysis, 2038 articles were selected from Scopus, from the period 1994–2021, presenting global research tendencies on the subject of values, public administration, and sustainability. The results indicate that Sustainability is the most productive journal, the main research category is in social sciences, the most productive institution is the University of Queensland, the location with the most publications and research collaborations is the USA, and the authors with the greatest number of articles are Chung, from Chung-Ang University; García-Sánchez, from the University of Salamanca; and Pérez, from the University of Cantabria. Analysis of keywords shows that the most relevant are “sustainability”, “CSR”, “sustainable development”, “innovation”, and “leadership”. Time analysis of keywords reveals a tendency for lines of research in the social and work area. The results also provide data about the framing of studies in sustainability pillars and the types of values referred to and indicate the main areas of public administration studied. Finally, a future research agenda is proposed.

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Climate-Change Communication Within Public Natural Resource Agencies: Lessons Learned From the U.S. Forest Service

Cited by 17 publications

References 48 publications

Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Questioning Kaufman: How Cross‐Level Political Coalitions Interact with Organizational Structure

Public Administration and Values Oriented to Sustainability: A Systematic Approach to the Literature

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