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Bureaucratic Landscapes Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity

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By: Craig W Thomas
368 pages, 2 illus
Publisher: MIT Press
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  • Bureaucratic Landscapes ISBN: 9780262700894 Paperback Feb 2003 Out of Print #133345
  • Bureaucratic Landscapes ISBN: 9780262201414 Hardback Dec 2003 Out of Print #133346
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Political scientists have long been concerned about the tension between institutional fragmentation and policy coordination in the United States bureaucracy. The literature is rife with examples of agencies competing with each other or asserting their independence, while cooperation is relatively rare. This is of particular importance in policy areas such as biodiversity, where species, habitats and ecosystems cross various agency jurisdictions. "Bureaucratic Landscapes" explores the reasons for the success and failure of interagency cooperation, focusing on several case studies of efforts to preseve biodiversity in California. The book examines why public officials tried to cooperate and the obstacles they faced, providing indirect evidence of policy impacts as well. Among other topics, it examines the role of courts in prompting agency action, the role of scientific knowledge in organizational learning, and the emergence of new institutions to resolve collective-action problems. Notable findings include the crucial role of environmental lawsuits in prompting agency action and the surprisingly active role of the Bureau of Land Management in resource preservation.

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Craig W. Thomas is Associate Professor at the Evans Schools of Public Affairs, University of Washington.

Out of Print
By: Craig W Thomas
368 pages, 2 illus
Publisher: MIT Press
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This book is a significant contribution to the field. Interagency cooperation or the lack of it is an important topic in natural resource policy and management. Craig Thomas helps clarify the need for improved cooperation and why cooperation is so rare today. --Timothy W. Clark, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University "A timely and important contribution to our knowledge of how and when public agencies will engage in effective cooperation and to our understanding of the political and administrative aspects of biodiversity preservation. This extremely well-written and well-researched study will enjoy a wide readership in the fields of public administration, organization theory, and environmental science." --Chris Ansell, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley "Thomas's compelling study shows how federal agencies, threatened by court action and guided by new ideas about problem solving, are surprisingly able to cooperate informally to tackle the current generation of environmental problems. It also sets the stage for the coming debate about how to make these informal innovations official in new organizational forms." --Charles Sabel, Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School

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