Policy Design to Support Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration
Policy Design to Support Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration
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支持森林恢复的政策设计：集中投资和合作的价值
作者：
Courtney A. Schultz;Kathleen B. Mclntyre;L. Cyphers;Chad Kooistra;A. Ellison;C. Moseley
为了应对快速变化和复杂的环境管理挑战，治理方法必须支持跨行为者和司法管辖区的集体行动，并在适当的空间范围内进行规划，以影响生态过程。美国国家森林政策最近的变化纳入了促进合作景观恢复的新工具，为审查政策设计和治理变化之间的关系提供了机会。根据对机构工作人员和合作伙伴的151次访谈以及对425名机构工作人员的调查，我们调查了两种新的政策办法如何影响森林恢复的治理，并考察了对政策执行影响最大的其他因素。我们的调查结果表明，在这些政策下，对特定领域的多年资金承诺，加上协作工作的要求，与过去相比，导致了更大的规划规模、更好的关系、更大的杠杆能力和许多创新。合作关系、领导力和机构能力的历史是影响旨在支持合作景观恢复的政策实施的最重要变量。我们的调查结果表明，提供有重点的投资以采取景观恢复办法的政策，以及对机构间和伙伴合作的具体要求，正在产生积极的结果，可能代表着美国森林政策的新纪元。
To address rapid change and complex environmental management challenges, governance approaches must support collective action across actors and jurisdictions, and planning at appropriate spatial extents to affect ecological processes. Recent changes in U.S. national forest policy incorporate new tools to facilitate collaborative landscape restoration, providing an opportunity to examine the relationship between policy design and governance change. Based on 151 interviews with agency personnel and partners, and a survey of 425 agency staff members, we investigated how two new policy approaches affected the governance of forest restoration and also looked at the other factors that most significantly affected policy implementation. Our findings reveal that, under these policies, multi-year funding commitments to specific landscapes, combined with requirements to work collaboratively, resulted in larger scales of planning, improved relationships, greater leveraged capacity, and numerous innovations compared to the past. A history of collaborative relationships, leadership, and agency capacity were the most significant variables that affected the implementation of policies designed to support collaborative landscape restoration. Our findings suggest that policies that provide focused investment to undertake landscape approaches to restoration, along with specific requirements for interagency and partner collaboration, are yielding positive results and may represent a new era in forest policy in the United States.