The Forest Ranger

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ISBN: 9781933115269 | 1933115262
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/15/2005

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Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve greater social and ecological sustainability. It provides

Foreword: ``The Vast Funnel''

Harold K. Steen

Foreword: ``A Groundbreaking, Ground-Level Study''

xiii

Richard P. Nathan

Foreword (to 1960 edition)

xxiii

Preface (to 1960 edition)

xxvii

Acknowledgments (to 1960 edition)

xxxi

Introduction

Subject and Approach

(22)

The Rangers and Their Districts

(10)

Method of Study

(3)

The Plan of the Book

(4)

PART ONE: TENDENCIES TOWARD FRAGMENTATION

The Size and Complexity of the Forest Service Job

(41)

A Profile of the Forest Service

(22)

The Pivotal Role of the Rangers: Executives, Planners, and Woodsmen

(17)

The Thrust toward Disunity

(2)

Challenges to Unity

(25)

Problems of Internal Communication

(7)

Behavioral Norms of Face-to-Face Work Groups

(2)

``Capture'' of Field Officers by Local Populations

(5)

Personal Preferences of Field Officers

(3)

The Ideology of Decentralization

(3)

Conclusion: The Impulse toward Disintegration

(5)

PART TWO: TECHNIQUES OF INTEGRATION

Procedural Devices for Preforming Decisions

(35)

Authorization, Direction, and Prohibition

(10)

Clearance and Dispute Settlement

102

(5)

Financial and Workload Planning

107

(17)

The Problem of Deviation from Preformed Decisions

124

(2)

Detecting and Discouraging Deviation

126

(35)

Reporting

126

(4)

Official Diaries

130

(4)

Furnishing Overhead Services

134

(3)

Inspection

137

(16)

Hearing Appeals by the Public

153

(2)

Movement of Personnel

155

(2)

Sanctions

157

(2)

Feedback and Correction

159

(2)

Developing the Will and Capacity to Conform

161

(42)

Selecting Men Who Fit

161

(9)

Post-entry Training

170

(5)

Building Identification with the Forest Service

175

(23)

The Result: Voluntary Conformity

198

(5)

CONCLUSIONS

Attainments and Dilemmas

203

(40)

The Conquest of Centrifugal Tendencies

203

(4)

The Strategies of Conquest

207

(25)

The Hazards of Managerial Success

232

(7)

Fragmentation, Integration, and the Study of Administration

239

(4)

Index

243

(18)

Afterword

261

Herbert Kaufman

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