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Configuring Who Does What in Watershed Management: The Massachusetts Watershed Initiative
Author(s) -
Michaels Sarah
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1999.tb01986.x
Subject(s) - watershed , outreach , watershed management , government (linguistics) , environmental planning , action plan , public administration , plan (archaeology) , public participation , local government , political science , action (physics) , business , environmental resource management , geography , environmental science , computer science , management , economics , law , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning
The goal of the Massachusetts Watershed Initiative (MWI) is to use a watershed approach to restore and maintain the integrity of state waters. The MWI is presented as an effort to bring about the convergence of the agendas of government, the informed public, and the general public. In the planning phase of the MWI's pilot project in the Neponset River Watershed, government and the informed public successfully struggled to create a joint basin‐wide action plan. Stronger outreach is needed to involve the broader public and to engage local municipalities and businesses more fully.