Toward the Stabilization and Enrichment of a Forest Community

Kaufman, Harold F.; Kaufman, Lois C.

doi:10.4324/9780429043253-3

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“…Although Kaufman avoids mention of political interactions, he did find that district rangers faced little political opposition at the local level and worked closely with local businesspeople who were involved in extractive industries and supported agency actions. Other studies from this period support his picture of rural communities dominated by powerful alliances between government and industry (Gaventa ; Kaufman and Kaufman ; Selznick ) and of a politically powerful USFS (Carpenter ; Clarke and McCool ), and the close relationship between agency, extractive industries, and congressional oversight committees earned it a reputation as an “iron triangle” (Clary ; Hirt ; Hoberg ; O'Toole ; Wilkinson and Anderson ).…”

Section: The Missing Political Contextmentioning

confidence: 84%

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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Section: The Missing Political Contextmentioning

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

Fleischman

2017

Public Administration Review

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“…Resource dependency is a concept denoting conditions under which particular communities or regions are heavily reliant on one type of economic activity (Krannich et al 2014). Research on resource dependency dates back to the work of Landis (1938) and Kaufman and Kaufman (1946), emerging as a central concern for rural sociologists in the early 1990s when federal policy in the U.S. effectively put off limits most publicly owned timberland, an action which had particularly important consequences for the Pacific Northwest (Lee, Field, and Burch 1990). In the long run, the consequence of resource dependency is social and economic marginalization and declining standards of living (Carroll and Lee 1990; Cook 1995; Freudenburg 1992; Machlis and Force 1988; Machlis, Force, and Balice 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

Taking Goldschmidt to the Woods: Timberland Ownership and Quality of Life in Alabama*

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Gopaul

Thomson³

et al. 2020

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We use a database of property tax records for 13.6 million acres representing every parcel of privately owned timberland in 48 rural Alabama counties to test two hypotheses inspired by Walter Goldschmidt relating land ownership and quality of life. Our data show private ownership is highly concentrated and 62 percent is absentee owned. We employed Pearson correlations alongside Poisson and negative binomial regression models to estimate influence of both concentrated private ownership and absentee ownership of timberland. Our findings support Goldschmidt-inspired hypotheses that concentrated and absentee ownership of timberland exhibit a significant adverse relationship with quality of life as measured by educational attainment, poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, eligibility for free or reduced price lunch at public schools, Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program participation, and population density. Low property taxes in Alabama limit the ability of local governments to generate revenue to support public education or meet other infrastructural or service needs in rural areas. We call on rural sociologists and kindred spirits to pay more attention to the fundamental importance of land ownership which shapes the foundations of power and inequality affecting rural life in America and beyond.

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“…The Human Development School of thought of the United Nations Development Programme only broadened this theory to low-income countries, where quality of life depends on natural resources (Gough and McGregor, 2007), during the 1990s. The links between the wellbeing of forest-dependent communities and their livelihoods have been the center of social studies (Gibson, 1944;Kaufman and Kaufman, 1946;Frey and Stutzer, 2010), which concludes that rapid economic growth might decrease social wellbeing (Frankena, 1980;Freudenburg, 1984;Beckley, 1995) as this growth is usually at the cost of forests and other natural resources (Goldschmidt, 1947;Laurance et al, 2014;Sloan and Sayer, 2015). Goldschmidt (1947) presented that increased concentration of the farm sector led to a decline in rural economic and social wellbeing.…”

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Toward SDGs: Forest, Market and Human Wellbeing Nexus in Indian Western Himalayas

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The wellbeing of mountain communities is determined by the availability and accessibility of ecosystem goods and services. We assessed the relationship between forest quality and wellbeing of local communities of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (NDBR) in the Upper Ganga River Basin, Western Himalayas, India. We used 14 relevant Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations as indicators to assess wellbeing. Data on these indicators were collected in 22 villages that were selected based on secondary demographic information, remoteness, and the state of the forest resources, which we classified into degraded and less-degraded. Semi-structured questionnaire-based interviews were conducted in randomly selected households (n = 764). The households located close to forests scored higher on wellbeing indicators than the households located further away from forests as they have better accessibility to forest resources and freshwater, which provides alternatives to market and agricultural products. Households with access to less-degraded resources also had access to wild fruits, vegetables, and medicinal plants adding to their food and health security. Our study found that the combination of climate change, declining forest resources, and the expansion of the market-based economy is leading to shifts in traditional cropping patterns and hence the nutritional status and forest use patterns of local people, making them vulnerable to diseases and hunger. Accessibility to an intact forest patch near a village contributes to the wellbeing of people and increases their resilience in the face of climate change and the changes dictated by the market forces.

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Toward the Stabilization and Enrichment of a Forest Community

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

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

Taking Goldschmidt to the Woods: Timberland Ownership and Quality of Life in Alabama*

Toward SDGs: Forest, Market and Human Wellbeing Nexus in Indian Western Himalayas

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