The Forest Ranger

by Kaufman, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9781933115269
• ISBN10: 1933115262
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Foreword: ``The Vast Funnel''	ix
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	3	(22)
The Rangers and Their Districts	8	(10)
Method of Study	18	(3)
The Plan of the Book	21	(4)
PART ONE: TENDENCIES TOWARD FRAGMENTATION
The Size and Complexity of the Forest Service Job	25	(41)
A Profile of the Forest Service	25	(22)
The Pivotal Role of the Rangers: Executives, Planners, and Woodsmen	47	(17)
The Thrust toward Disunity	64	(2)
Challenges to Unity	66	(25)
Problems of Internal Communication	66	(7)
Behavioral Norms of Face-to-Face Work Groups	73	(2)
``Capture'' of Field Officers by Local Populations	75	(5)
Personal Preferences of Field Officers	80	(3)
The Ideology of Decentralization	83	(3)
Conclusion: The Impulse toward Disintegration	86	(5)
PART TWO: TECHNIQUES OF INTEGRATION
Procedural Devices for Preforming Decisions	91	(35)
Authorization, Direction, and Prohibition	92	(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