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Not so eerie anymore? The promise of collaborative watershed management in the Lake Erie Basin

Hardy, Scott D.

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Natural Resources.
This study examines the structural and functional differences among collaborative watershed partnerships located in urban and rural areas. The study also investigates the roles government, nongovernmental organizations, and local culture play in determining partnership goals, strategies, and outcomes. Results suggest government impacts on partnership issue definition, resources for collaboration, and structure and decision processes are affected by differences in membership profile (government-centered, citizen-centered, or mixed-membership) and land use (urban or rural). Results further suggest that the nature of environmental problems in urban and rural watersheds, combined with unique cultural attributes, and varying institutional frameworks, lead to different sets of goals, strategies, and outputs in urban and rural watershed partnerships. Institutional resources and social capital are thus found to have varying levels of importance to partnerships located in areas dominated by different land uses. Finally, the results from this study suggest that partnerships with different membership profiles show different patterns of rules-based interactions among actors. These relationships can lead to variations in the information available to partnership decision-makers, the strategies and activities they undertake, and ultimately, the partnerships’ environmental, social, and policy outcomes.
Tomas Koontz (Advisor)

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  • Hardy, S. D. (2007). Not so eerie anymore? The promise of collaborative watershed management in the Lake Erie Basin [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180545099

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hardy, Scott. Not so eerie anymore? The promise of collaborative watershed management in the Lake Erie Basin. 2007. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180545099.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hardy, Scott. "Not so eerie anymore? The promise of collaborative watershed management in the Lake Erie Basin." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180545099

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)