Policy Design to Support Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Policy Design for Collaborative and Landscape Approaches in Governance
1.2. The Ecological Context of Forest Restoration in the United States
1.3. The Social and Political Context of Forest Restoration in the United States
1.4. Background on the CFLRP and Joint Chiefs Partnership
1.5. Summary and Research Questions
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Interview Methods
2.2. Survey Methods
3. Results
3.1. Benefits Realized under the CFLRP and Joint Chiefs Approaches
3.2. Common Factors That Facilitated or Impeded Success
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Schultz, C.A.; Mclntyre, K.B.; Cyphers, L.; Kooistra, C.; Ellison, A.; Moseley, C. Policy Design to Support Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration. Forests 2018, 9, 512. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090512
Schultz CA, Mclntyre KB, Cyphers L, Kooistra C, Ellison A, Moseley C. Policy Design to Support Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration. Forests. 2018; 9(9):512. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090512
Chicago/Turabian StyleSchultz, Courtney A., Kathleen B. Mclntyre, Laren Cyphers, Chad Kooistra, Autumn Ellison, and Cassandra Moseley. 2018. "Policy Design to Support Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration" Forests 9, no. 9: 512. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090512