Managing the environment :
By: Lindenmayer, David B
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Contributor(s): DOVERS, Stephen R.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, June 1997Australian Journal of Public Administration 56, 2, p. 65-80Abstract: This article argues that, despite environmental issues climbing higher on the political agenda and considerable recent policy activitym rhetoric is not matched by reality in our efforts to manage the Australian environment. We integrate the imperatives emerging from the policy and sustainability literatures and from actual policy, with detailed work on wildlife conservation in Victoria's Central Higlands. Our analysis demostrates that, rather than undertaking the more intensive policy and 'adaptive management' that is needed, governments are often doing less and may actually be 'taking their hands of their whell". Some public policy and administration implications of the emerging policy field of sustainability are illustrated
This article argues that, despite environmental issues climbing higher on the political agenda and considerable recent policy activitym rhetoric is not matched by reality in our efforts to manage the Australian environment. We integrate the imperatives emerging from the policy and sustainability literatures and from actual policy, with detailed work on wildlife conservation in Victoria's Central Higlands. Our analysis demostrates that, rather than undertaking the more intensive policy and 'adaptive management' that is needed, governments are often doing less and may actually be 'taking their hands of their whell". Some public policy and administration implications of the emerging policy field of sustainability are illustrated
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