Durant, Robert F.
Toward a new governance paradigm for environmental and natural resources management in the 21st century? - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2004
Dissatisfaction with conventional regulatory approaches has led to an emerging new governance paradigm (NPG) in environment and natual resources (ENR) management. This NGP is premised on a need to reconceptualize ENR management regimes, reconnect with stakeholders, and redefine what constitutes administrative rationality in the public and private sectors. The ultimate fate of the NPG is in doubt, however. This essay argues that the NPG is best appreciated as an effort to graft managerial flexibility onto as otherwise inflexible regulatory regime--an effort that has left a halfway, halting, and patchworked regulatory regime in its wake. Applying John Gau´s notion of the ecology of public administration as an analytical framework, the essay addresses three questions: (a) What were the sociopolitical, technological, and economic factors propelling and delimiting the NPG over the last quarter of the 20th century; (b) how likely are they to endure; (c) with what consequences for ENR managers, regulators, and regulates in the 21st century?
Toward a new governance paradigm for environmental and natural resources management in the 21st century? - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2004
Dissatisfaction with conventional regulatory approaches has led to an emerging new governance paradigm (NPG) in environment and natual resources (ENR) management. This NGP is premised on a need to reconceptualize ENR management regimes, reconnect with stakeholders, and redefine what constitutes administrative rationality in the public and private sectors. The ultimate fate of the NPG is in doubt, however. This essay argues that the NPG is best appreciated as an effort to graft managerial flexibility onto as otherwise inflexible regulatory regime--an effort that has left a halfway, halting, and patchworked regulatory regime in its wake. Applying John Gau´s notion of the ecology of public administration as an analytical framework, the essay addresses three questions: (a) What were the sociopolitical, technological, and economic factors propelling and delimiting the NPG over the last quarter of the 20th century; (b) how likely are they to endure; (c) with what consequences for ENR managers, regulators, and regulates in the 21st century?
