Stakeholder Collaboration and Organizational Innovation in the Planning of the Deschutes Estuary Feasibility Study

• Published in: Coastal management Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 514 - 528
• Main Authors: Safford, Thomas G., Carlson, Margen L., Hart, Zachary H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2009; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Coastal environments; Coastal management; Coastal zone management; Collaboration; Cooperation; cooperative research; Estuaries; Estuarine dynamics; estuary restoration; Feasibility studies; Innovation; Innovations; Interest groups; Management; organizational behavior; Organizations; Planning; Political participation; Public officials; Restoration; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; stakeholder involvement; Stakeholders; Traditional roles; Washington State; United States > US; Olympia Washington

Coastal managers have sought to enhance the collaborative inputs of stakeholder groups into management activities. Nonetheless, established organizational approaches have led to primarily consultative forms of engagement and constrained citizen involvement in formative activities. In Olympia, Washin...