Leveraging Administrative Capacity to Manage Landscape-Scale, Cross-Boundary Disturbance in the Black Hills: What Roles for Federal, State, Local, and Nongovernmental Partners?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M M Steen-Adams ◽  
J A Abrams ◽  
H R Huber-Stearns ◽  
C Bone ◽  
C Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Black Hills ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Governance Networks ◽  
The Government

Abstract Public land management agencies, such as the US Forest Service (USFS), confront challenges in leveraging limited administrative capacity to effectively manage landscape-scale, cross-boundary disturbances. Using case study methods, we investigated the ~1996–2016 outbreak of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) in the Black Hills, a 1.5 million acre region in South Dakota and Wyoming. We identified four practices that can promote the leveraging of administrative capacity: (1) establishing multilevel governance networks; (2) performing both distinct and shared (“redundant”) partner roles; (3) maximizing the collaborative toolbox: drawing upon the variety of policy tools (older, newer) and modes of use (conventional, experimental); and (4) engaging a multilevel, multiorganizational network, with attention to the ways that a variety of network linkages can deploy a variety of policy tool types. This case demonstrates how the government-led model of network governance can be applied to leverage administrative capacity. These findings point to strategies to promote landscape-scale, cross-boundary management. Study Implications Public land managers, partners, and scientists can learn from the case of the Black Hills about practices to leverage administrative capacity to manage landscape-level, cross-boundary disturbances. Such practices involve governance networks, partner roles, and use of a collaborative toolbox from which policy tools are selected. Convening overlapping, multilevel networks (national forest, ranger district) can maximize consideration of various partner roles and collaborative toolbox options, including both tool type (older, newer) and mode of use (conventional, experimental). Attention to the variety of network linkages (federal, state, local, industry, NGO) can promote opportunities to deploy a variety of policy tools, thereby leveraging capacity.

scholarly journals Landscape-scale quantification of fire-induced change in canopy cover following mountain pine beetle outbreak and timber harvest

2017 ◽  
Vol 391 ◽  
pp. 164-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ryan McCarley ◽  
Crystal A. Kolden ◽  
Nicole M. Vaillant ◽  
Andrew T. Hudak ◽  
Alistair M.S. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Canopy Cover ◽  
Timber Harvest ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle

scholarly journals Bridging the policy-implementation gap in federal health systems: lessons from the Nigerian experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Mckenzie ◽  
Emmanuel Sokpo ◽  
Alastair Ager
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Programme Design ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Government

The Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria - Maternal, Newborn and Child Health initiative supports efforts by the government of Nigeria to bridge primary health care (PHC) policies and services at three levels of government: federal, state and local. The paper suggests that understandings informed by complexity theory and complex adaptive systems have been helpful in shaping policy and programme design across these levels. To illustrate this, three initiatives are explored: <em>Bringing PHC under one roof</em>, enhancing access to funding provided by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, and strengthening the midwives service scheme. These initiatives have demonstrated how concepts and experience developed at subnational level can influence national policy and practice, and how work at subnational levels can add value to nationally conceived and nationally driven plans for PHC.

County Administration in Fukien

1974 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 518-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor C. Falkenheim
Keyword(s):  
Economic Change ◽  
National Level ◽  
Local Organization ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Developing Societies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Levels

In most contemporary developing societies, the responsibility for directing broad social and economic change is assumed by the government. The success or failure of these government sponsored programmes often hinges narrowly on the degree of administrative capacity at the regional and local levels. Programmes which are otherwise well designed and funded at the national level may founder for lack of effective local organization.

scholarly journals The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic in the Black Hills, South Dakota: The Consequences of Long Term Fire Policy, Climate Change and the Use of Remote Sensing to Enhance Mitigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Mullen ◽  
Fei Yuan ◽  
Martin Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Ponderosa Pine ◽  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Black Hills ◽  
Fire Policy ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle ◽  
Ponderosa Pine Forest

The recent and intense outbreak (first decade of 2000s) of the mountain pine beetle in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, which impacted over 33% of the 1.2 million acre (486,000 ha) Black Hills National Forest, illustrates what can occur when forest management practices intersect with natural climatic oscillations and climate change to create the “perfect storm” in a region where the physical environment sets the stage for a plethora of economic activities ranging from extractive industries to tourism. This study evaluates the potential of WorldView-2 satellite imagery for green-attacked tree detection in the ponderosa pine forest of the Black Hills, USA. It also discusses the consequences of long term fire policy and climate change, and the use of remote sensing technology to enhance mitigation. It was found that the near-infrared one (band 7) of WorldView-2 imagery had the highest influence on the green-attack classification. The Random Forest classification produced the best results when transferred to the independent dataset, whereas the Logistic Regression models consistently yielded the highest accuracies when cross-validated with the training data. Lessons learned include: (1) utilizing recent advances in remote sensing technologies, most notably the use of WorldView-2 data, to assist in more effectively implementing mitigation measures during an epidemic, and (2) implementing pre-emptive thinning strategies; both of which can be applied elsewhere in the American West to more effectively blunt or preclude the consequences of a mountain pine beetle outbreak on an existing ponderosa pine forest. 

scholarly journals The Eurasian concept of “a multi-national nation” and its value for the development of the Russian state

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Skuratov
Keyword(s):  
Federal State ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
Federal Target Program ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Target Program ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Foreign Science

INTRODUCTION. This article discusses that part of the classical Eurasian concept, which is devoted to ethno-national relations prevailing in Northern Eurasia, the characteristics of the factors and traditions that determined the formation of the Russian superethnos. The content of the categories “Eurasian nationalism” is revealed, which, according to the classics of the doctrine, should become the core idea of the formation of the Russian multi-national nation. Considerable attention in the article is paid to the analysis of the correlation and interconnection of the categories “people” and “nation”, the characteristics of their specific features.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The article is based on a study of the concepts of Eurasianism presented in domestic and foreign science and the provisions of the Federal Target Program approved by the Government of the Russian Federation “Strengthening the Unity of the Russian Nation and Ethnocultural Development of the Peoples of Russia (2014 – 2020)” are considered.RESEARCH RESULTS. In the article the thesis is substantiated that the modern theoretical substantiation of the tendency for the formation of the “Russian nation” is associated with the desire to strengthen the national substrate of Russia as a single federal state and to avoid the sad experience of the split of the USSR. The author analyzes various approaches to realizing the task of forming a multi-national nation on the basis of the Russian people and shows his own position with respect to the idea of adopting a special Law on the Russian nation.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. The article critically evaluates the position that rigidly links the formation of a nation with the creation of its own sovereign national state which in most cases is not applicable to multinational states. 

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