A Multiple Streams Analysis of Institutional Innovation in Forest Watershed Governance.

Increasingly severe wildfires have focused attention on forested watershed vulnerabilities, causing significant changes to policies and governance. We utilized the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) to understand institutional innovations of federal agency–large water provider partnerships in Colorado...

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Published in:Review of Policy Research Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 781 - 805
Main Authors: Huber‐Stearns, Heidi R., Schultz, Courtney, Cheng, Antony S.
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2019
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          Huber‐Stearns, Heidi R.
          Schultz, Courtney
          Cheng, Antony S.
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          University of Oregon
          Colorado State University
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        United States
        Colorado
        Emergency management
        Watershed management
        Watersheds
        Wildfires
        Environmental management
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          Emergency and Other Relief Services
          Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
          Other federal protective services
          Other provincial protective services
          Other municipal protective services
          Watershed management
          Watersheds
          Wildfires
          Environmental management
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        disaster & risk management
        environment
        governance
        innovation
        gestión de desastres y riesgos
        gobernanza
        innovación
        medio ambiente
        创新
        治理
        灾害与风险管理
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      ab: Increasingly severe wildfires have focused attention on forested watershed vulnerabilities, causing significant changes to policies and governance. We utilized the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) to understand institutional innovations of federal agency–large water provider partnerships in Colorado to protect watersheds through joint planning and funding. Ambiguous problem definition and focusing events were significant aspects of these partnerships. We interviewed individuals in the partnerships, with MSA ideas of how solutions to policy problems develop, and the role of policy entrepreneurs. We found that wildfires served as focusing events, creating space and time for learning, collaboration and new problem framing, increased political attention, and institutional innovation. In this study, windows of opportunity stayed open longer, policy entrepreneurs and agencies played larger roles in communication and coupling streams and the context of fast‐moving, unpredictable ecological crises changed responses to issues. Our findings also have implications for broader policy studies and environmental governance scholarship.
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