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  • Course Number / Code:
  • 11.959 (January (IAP) 2007) 
  • Course Title:
  • Reforming Natural Resources Governance: Failings of Scientific Rationalism and Alternatives for Buil 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Urban Studies and Planning 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Dr. Herman Karl
    Dr. David Mattson 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 11.959 Reforming Natural Resources Governance: Failings of Scientific Rationalism and Alternatives for Building Common Ground



    January (IAP) 2007




    Course Highlights


    This course features a full set of readings and lecture notes.


    Course Description


    For the last century, precepts of scientific management and administrative rationality have concentrated power in the hands of technical specialists, which in recent decades has contributed to widespread disenfranchisement and discontent among stakeholders in natural resources cases. In this seminar we examine the limitations of scientific management as a model both for governance and for gathering and using information, and describe alternative methods for informing and organizing decision-making processes. We feature cases involving large carnivores in the West (mountain lions and grizzly bears), Northeast coastal fisheries, and adaptive management of the Colorado River. There will be nightly readings and a short written assignment.
     

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