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INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTION IN METROPOLITAN WATER RESOURCE PLANNING 1
Author(s) -
Ball Ian Traquair
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1973.tb01767.x
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , legislature , watershed , work (physics) , public administration , politics , resource (disambiguation) , environmental planning , state (computer science) , political science , business , environmental resource management , regional science , sociology , geography , engineering , economics , computer science , algorithm , mechanical engineering , computer network , archaeology , machine learning , law
Methods of institutional coordination derived from the applied behavioral sciences have been useful in determining the policy planning, and implementation responsibilities that must be shared between local governments, watershed districts, and a regional planning body in the Minneapolis‐St. Paul Metropolitan Area. The confines of the traditional behavioral science models of organizations and institutional change processes, and the realities of administrative systems imbedded in political processes at both the local and state levels, have created conflicts between regional planners, watershed district staff and consultants, and municipal administrators. A conceptual framework based on work by Selznick on institutions was applied to two watershed districts, and the results evaluated for other research purposes as well as policy development for the 1973 Minnesota legislative session.