Mechanisms Affecting Public Acceptance of Resource Management Policies and Strategies

1987 ◽  
Vol 44 (S2) ◽  
pp. s306-s312 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ben Peyton
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Management Policies

Managing the issues which arise from Great Lakes rehabilitation efforts will involve some expertise in psychology and sociology and in the administration of public involvement processes. The components of issues which must be managed include inadequacies in our science, incomplete and/or conflicting public beliefs, and conflicting public values. Decisions must often be made without the benefit of complete scientific information, and the public is poorly prepared to deal with this limitation. Even when scientific knowledge is adequate, segments of the public may be uninformed and create issues. Most issues result from conflicts between users with differing value priorities in a management decision. Public involvement strategies exist to increase representative and interactive participation by citizens needed to resolve or avoid many issues, but additional strategies must be developed to deal with the difficult dynamics of value conflicts. The response of management agencies should be to implement long-range programs to develop their own expertise in the dynamics of public perceptions, citizen skills to participate in the management process, and more effective strategies for involving citizens in the difficult, value-laden resource management process.

Meaningful public participation in the planning and management of publicly owned forests

1991 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan S. Tanz ◽  
Andrew F. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Resource ◽  
Management Alternatives ◽  
Public Forests

Foresters responsible for the management of public forests in Canada need a new approach. Multiple resource management and meaningful public involvement in management decision making are the distinguishing characteristics of this approach. This paper examines public participation in the management of public forests by trying to answer three questions; 1. Why involve citizens in resource management at all?, 2. Who may participate?, and 3. How can the public participate? Deciding who may participate is a difficult task, but utilizing the concept of forest constituency may help. We suggest that the public must be involved not only in policy-making decisions, but also in management decisions. Doing so, however, requires the use of computerized decision aids designed specifically for cooperative exploration of management alternatives.

scholarly journals Analysis of Human Resource Management Policies and Their Impact on the Civil Service in Iraq (A field study in the Iraqi Health Administration)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (124) ◽  
pp. 321-340
Author(s):  
Ali Saadoon Ali
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Experimental Sample ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reform Program ◽  
Management Policies

This research aims to analyze and the impact of human resource management policies (as an independent variable) contained in the public sector reform program on the civil service (as a dependent variable). The importance of the research lies in the implementation and implementation of various projects in the reform groups of the public sectors and the human resource management system in particular, By analyzing the administration’s trends and policies, identifying all strengths, working to improve and increasing its efficiency rates, working to identify, fix and remove all weaknesses, as well as working to replace them with strengths, and then work to develop resources in more than one form, especially human resources The research problem was also represented in finding the knowledge that the Iraqi state carries out in determining all the administrative foundations used in human resources and how to integrate them into the public health sector, in order to achieve and organize the social reform program that the state aims to achieve using the various civilized and widespread methods spread around the world to improve the field services provided For individuals without discrimination or racism, as it works to improve the role of human resources and take care of the main pillar present in it and expressed in it, through the evaluation and evaluation of the human element using the criteria of equality and equal opportunities, control and transparency, and to clarify the relationship between the research variables, the descriptive analytical approach was used in the study To renew the effects of human resources management and the policies used in the public sector, where the number of the sample used was 160 individuals as an experimental sample. One hundred (100) individuals were physicians, and sixty (60) nurses were in (7) hospitals, including governmental and some private, and the data were analyzed. In the statistical program (spss) and (Excel), using a number of statistical methods, including (arithmetic mean, mean deviation (Yari, Alpha Crow Nbach Factor, Pearson Correlation) The research has reached many results, the most important of which are identifying the different trends in each of them, the integrity and efficiency provided in identifying the different actors between different organizations and establishments, as well as the trends for human development resources and the development programs responsible for that.

scholarly journals Demystifying Drought: Strategies to Enhance the Communication of a Complex Hazard

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ward ◽  
Kirsten Lackstrom ◽  
Corey Davis
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Drought Indicators ◽  
Development Evaluation

AbstractDrought is a complex phenomenon that is difficult to characterize and monitor. Accurate and timely communication is necessary to ensure that affected sectors and the public can respond and manage associated risks and impacts. To that end, myriad drought indicators, indices, and other tools have been developed and made available, but understanding and using this information can challenge end users who are unfamiliar with the information or presentation, or for decision makers with expertise in areas outside of climate and drought. This article highlights a project that aimed to improve the usability and dissemination of drought information for North Carolina (NC) audiences by addressing specific needs for a better understanding of how drought is monitored, the climatic and environmental conditions that can cause or worsen drought, and the impacts occurring in NC’s different sectors and sub-regions. Conducted to support NC’s official, statewide drought monitoring process, the project’s methods and results have utility for other geographies and contexts. The project team designed an iterative process to engage users in the development, evaluation, refinement, and distribution of new resources. Featured products include the Weekly Drought Update infographic, which explains the factors used to determine NC’s drought status, and the Short-Range Outlook infographic, a synthesis of National Weather Service forecasts. Effective strategies included using stakeholders’ preferred and existing channels to disseminate products, emphasizing impacts relevant to different user groups (such as agriculture, forestry, water resources) rather than indices, and employing concise narratives and visualizations to translate technical and scientific information.

The public—expert interface in local waste management decisions: expertise, credibility and process

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Petts
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Decision Making

Decision-making strategies which favour the top-down model do not recognize expertise as a communication and learning process, and have been seen to fail in many risk management contexts, in particular in local waste management decision-making. Examination of a novel public involvement programme in the development of a local waste strategy provides an opportunity to understand expertise as a process: in particular, (i) how expert knowledge is selected at the technical-democratic interface, (ii) how information is shaped and balanced, and (iii) whether knowledge shifts during processes of exposure to expertise. It provides evidence that counters expert views that the public are irrational, lack interest, and are concerned only about zero-risk options. Most importantly, it provides evidence that expertise is inextricably linked to its source, and that perceptions that expertise is not independent have a significant impact on public responses. Means to optimize the process of expertise are discussed.

Causes, Scope and Features of Disputes in Budgetary Sphere

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
A. D. Selyukov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
Setting Mechanism ◽  
The Law ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Ruling Party

The article is devoted to identifying the features of conflicts in the public sector as a basis for disputes, including with the participation of courts. The concept of «public interests» is introduced, on the basis of which the characteristic of disputes in the budgetary sphere is given as a dispute between the parties, relations between which are based on the method of legal inequality. It is concluded that by virtue of the law, the ruling party gives instructions to the subordinate party to do something in relation to the budget, but not always the public interests of the parties to the legal relationship are equally protected by law, which is not sufficiently manifested in the practice of legal support of budgetary activities. Since the efforts of the legislator to regulate budgetary relations are mainly aimed at ensuring procedural activities, they almost do not affect the goal-setting mechanism, so the subordinate party has no opportunity to challenge the management decision that infringes the implementation of the public interests of the subordinate party. By virtue of the above, the courts do not participate in the consideration of issues that go beyond the procedure for spending budget funds and the application of appropriate sanctions. Therefore, frequent cases of arbitrariness of the powerful party in budgetary legal relations remain without proper judicial protection. To solve the problem, it is required to introduce the institution of goal-setting in the budget legislation, so that it will be possible to talk about the proper provision of public interests in the budget sphere.

The Relevance of Trust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín ◽  
Kristen Intemann
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Epistemic Trust ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Public Policy Decisions ◽  
Scientific Phenomena

This chapter offers a brief overview of the importance of epistemic trust and the relevance that scientific institutions and practices have in promoting or undermining warranted public trust. Epistemic trust is crucial for the production of scientific knowledge, the ability of the public to make sense of scientific phenomena, and the development of public policy. Normatively inappropriate dissent is more likely to take hold and erroneously affect people’s beliefs and actions in a context where the trustworthiness of scientists is called into question and where there is an excessive reliance on scientific information when it comes to assessing policy decisions. Thus, finding ways to facilitate and sustain warranted epistemic trust, as well as increasing understanding of the proper role of science in public policy decisions can help mitigate the negative impact of dissenting views.

Living machines in our cultural imagination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Szollosy
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Cultural Imagination ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
The Human Condition

Public perceptions of robots and artificial intelligence (AI)—both positive and negative—are hopelessly misinformed, based far too much on science fiction rather than science fact. However, these fictions can be instructive, and reveal to us important anxieties that exist in the public imagination, both towards robots and AI and about the human condition more generally. These anxieties are based on little-understood processes (such as anthropomorphization and projection), but cannot be dismissed merely as inaccuracies in need of correction. Our demonization of robots and AI illustrate two-hundred-year-old fears about the consequences of the Enlightenment and industrialization. Idealistic hopes projected onto robots and AI, in contrast, reveal other anxieties, about our mortality—and the transhumanist desire to transcend the limitations of our physical bodies—and about the future of our species. This chapter reviews these issues and considers some of their broader implications for our future lives with living machines.

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