Bureaucracy matters : organizational structure and performance in Brazil's protected areas agency
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- While scientists and practitioners call for increasing ambition in environmental objectives, state capacity to meet existing goals is in many places weak. I examine potential to improve government agencies' implementation of environmental public policy through more strategic resource deployment. I do so through a mixed-methods study of personnel management and deforestation control in Brazil's federal protected areas agency, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), which manages one of the world's largest systems of protected areas. First, I examine the subjurisdiction conditions under which additional public employees will most positively impact deforestation outcomes. To do so, I combine a comparative case study of six ICMBio management teams operating in the Amazon region with panel regression analysis covering 322 federal protected areas over ten years. I find that the Chico Mendes Institute could have prevented on the order of 1,700 km2 of deforestation over this period through more strategic allocation of its personnel. I then examine the geographic, political, and organizational factors that produced a misalignment between subjurisdiction personnel needs and actual personnel allocation in the agency's first decade. This chapter draws on historical institutional analysis and descriptive analysis of quantitative data related to personnel, protected areas, and socioeconomic characteristics of the regions in which Brazil's federal protected areas are located. Altogether, I demonstrate the value of "looking inside" of public environmental organizations to understand environmental outcomes. In addition, I generate concrete policy recommendations for the Chico Mendes Institute itself: the principal guardian of some of the most important ecosystems on Earth.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Greenstein, Gus Henry |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Fukuyama, Francis |
| Degree supervisor | Ortolano, Leonard |
| Thesis advisor | Fukuyama, Francis |
| Thesis advisor | Ortolano, Leonard |
| Thesis advisor | Honig, Dan, 1981- |
| Thesis advisor | Lambin, Eric F |
| Degree committee member | Honig, Dan, 1981- |
| Degree committee member | Lambin, Eric F |
| Associated with | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gus Greenstein. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xf907jd0847 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Gus Henry Greenstein
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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