Challenges for Multilevel Stakeholder Engagement in Public Trust Resource Governance |
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| Authors: | Emily F Pomeranz Daniel J Decker William F Siemer Arthur Kirsch Jeremy Hurst James Farquhar |
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| Institution: | 1. Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAefp33@cornell.edu;3. Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA;4. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources, Avon, New York, USA;5. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources, Albany, New York, USA;6. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources, Watertown, New York, USA |
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| Abstract: | The trend in wildlife management over the last two decades has been to develop locally based approaches for responsiveness to local conditions, but some state wildlife agencies are finding the amount of staff time required to service this approach prohibitive. Although local engagement strategies have been lauded as assuring that public trust obligations of state government to citizens are met, we can expect that states with a local focus as their operational level of stakeholder engagement may opt to change their approach to reflect their resource limitations. We argue for comprehensive regional level effort to understand stakeholders augmented with local engagement processes where needed to deal with special circumstances in smaller areas within a region. Such an approach can be anticipated to have implications for stakeholder engagement and human dimensions research needs, which we discuss in the context of public trust resource administration and good governance of wildlife resources. |
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| Keywords: | public trust doctrine state wildlife agency stakeholder engagement governance scale |
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