Organizational learning and the fate of adaptive management in the US Forest Service

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 379-388

  Brown, Gregory G ^a   Squirrell, Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Forest Service; Learning; Organization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; FOREST SERVICE; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; NATIONAL FORESTS; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PRIVATE FORESTRY; RESEARCH STATIONS; US FOREST SERVICE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BENCHMARKING; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LEARNING;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; ORGANIZATIONS; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650819645     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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