Collaborating for people and nature : assessing the impacts of collaborative governance in federal hydropower licensing
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation evaluates the environmental benefits of collaborative governance, an increasingly common practice in which government and non-state actors share decision-making responsibility in an attempt to make policy decisions more democratic and effective. Despite collaboration's widespread use in environmental management, evidence for its impact on the resources managed is inconclusive. I use the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's process for licensing hydropower facilities in the US--a five-year process in which an electrical utility, federal and state agencies, tribes, local governments, and non-governmental organizations work jointly to develop the terms of an operating license--as a case to test whether and how varied levels of collaboration affect the environmental quality of licenses. Using a participant survey, document analysis, and process tracing, I find that increased collaboration improved the licenses' environmental quality and implementability, suggesting that collaboration does improve environmental management. The dissertation also considers the mechanism--why collaboration has an effect. I identify that face-to-face deliberation and negotiation most strongly affect environmental quality, providing critical knowledge for the design of collaborative processes. Lastly, the dissertation demonstrates the value of mixing methods to evaluate collaboration, as using multiple data sources and research designs validated my findings and provided a more holistic view of how collaboration works.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ulibarri, Nicola |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
| Primary advisor | Ortolano, Leonard |
| Primary advisor | Thompson, Barton H, Jr |
| Thesis advisor | Ortolano, Leonard |
| Thesis advisor | Thompson, Barton H, Jr |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Thesis advisor | Freyberg, David L |
| Advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Advisor | Freyberg, David L |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nicola Ulibarri. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Nicola Ulibarri
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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