Planning Salmon Recovery: Applying Sociological Concepts to Spawn New Organizational Insights

Restoring salmon is a complex organizational as well as technical endeavor. The Washington Salmon Recovery Planning Act has played a key role in these efforts by stimulating the creation of local planning organizations known as lead entities. This study utilizes conceptual and theoretical tools from...

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Published inSociety & natural resources Vol. 24; no. 7; pp. 751 - 766
Main Authors Safford, Thomas G., Norman, Karma C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2011
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Civil society
collaborative planning
Culture
Environmental policy
Federal legislation
Fish farming
Fish preservation
Fishery management
Legislation
Local Planning
Localism
Natural resource management
Natural Resources
Organizational behavior
Organizational behaviour
Organizational Culture
Organizational Sociology
Planners
Planning
Planning methods
Regulation
Resource Management
Salmon
Salmon industry
salmon recovery
Salmonidae
Seattle
Social sciences
Studies
Washington
Washington State
United States > US
Puget Sound
INE, USA, Washington, Puget Sound
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Summary:Restoring salmon is a complex organizational as well as technical endeavor. The Washington Salmon Recovery Planning Act has played a key role in these efforts by stimulating the creation of local planning organizations known as lead entities. This study utilizes conceptual and theoretical tools from organizational sociology to analyze regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive institutional forces shaping the structure and behavior of lead entity organizations in the Puget Sound region. Findings demonstrate that the regulative influence of the act only partly explains the distinct structure and behavior of lead entities. Other institutional influences such as the normative importance of technically driven salmon recovery approaches and the culture of localism embedded in these multiparty groups are equally important in explaining the organization of lead entity planning. Results from this study illustrate how research built upon theoretical insights from organizational sociology may provide planners with novel insights into the organization of natural resource management.
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ISSN:0894-1920
1521-0723
DOI:10.1080/08941920.2011.555445