Abstract
Over the past century, public land management has unfolded as a saga of tensions and challenges at the delicate interface of people and place. Many of these challenges test the endurance of our governing institutions. An institutional discovery process is unfolding with the emergence of new forms of governance – the rules and processes by which formal and informal groups of people make decisions regarding matters in which they have intersecting responsibilities and interests. Networks, collaboration, shared stewardship, and partnerships characterize these new forms of governance. These emergent collaborative endeavors are creating new bundles of ownership rights through easements, contracts, compacts, and cooperative agreements. Lying as a backdrop to the emergence of these new forms of governance are four policy and decision making puzzles. These include information challenges, incentive challenges, accountability challenges, and coordination challenges. Examining examples of network governance illuminate how they address these four decision making challenges and their implications for law, policy, and management skills.
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Notes
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Cooperative Conservation America web site: http://www.cooperativeconservationamerica.org/viewproject.asp?pid=490. Accessed 29 Aug 2010.
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Communication with the author, 2002.
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The information presented here on Buffalo Creek, Pennsylvania comes from an author site visit in 2002.
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See the Cooperative Conservation America web site at: http://www.cooperativeconservationamerica.org/viewproject.asp?pid=127. Accessed 29 Aug 2010.
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Information is from a site visit by the author (2002) and from: http://www.doi.ogv/partnerships/ducktrap.html and http://www/coastalmountains.org/protecting_land/active_campaigns.html#ducktrap.
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Information comes from site visits by the author in 2003, 2007, and 2010. Other information can be accessed online at: www.malpaiborderlandsgroup.org
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Information results from a site visit by the author in 2009. Information can also be obtained at: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/partnerships_home/tools/case_studies/sonoita.html. Accessed 29 Aug 2010.
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Communication with the author, 2002.
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Unpublished document, distributed at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration, Los Angeles, CA 2009, available from Lynn Scarlett at lynnscarlett@comcast.com.
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Scarlett, L. (2012). Transcending Boundaries: The Emergence of Conservation Networks. In: Karl, H., Scarlett, L., Vargas-Moreno, J., Flaxman, M. (eds) Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2549-2_9
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