State Funding of Natural Resource Programs and Agencies
Author: Jan J. Hacker
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Jan J. Hacker
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
Published: 2013-06
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781289092481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2000-09-08
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 030907083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur nation faces daunting challenges to its food and fiber system and to the condition of our natural resources in the coming decades. Rapid increases in world population and the pressure on resources generated by increasing per capita consumption as a result of increasing per capita income challenge the very basis of our standard of livingâ€"our food, fiber, and natural-resource base. As the nation faces the challenges, new technologies and new information systems are changing the face of biologic research. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has traditionally been the nation's primary public research engine in food, fiber, and natural resources. The National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRI) is a small part of that USDA research effort, but it accounts for a substantial portion of the nation's merit-based peer-reviewed fundamental research efforts in food, fiber, and natural resources. In 1997, USDA asked the National Research Council Board on Agriculture (now the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources) to conduct an independent assessment of the NRI program. Specifically, USDA asked the Research Council to: perform a retrospective assessment of the quality and value of research funded by the program; determine whether the science and technology priorities in the major NRI programs are defined appropriately; assess how NRI activities complement other USDA programs, those of other federal agencies, and state programs in the private sector; and recommend the nature and content of changes for the future. This report summarizes the results of the committee's analysis. Chapter 2 summarizes the value of food, fiber, and natural resources-research to the United States, focusing on economic contributions and rates of return of food and fiber research. The committee's analysis of the quality, value, fairness, relevance, and responsiveness of the NRI competitive grants program is presented in chapter 3. Chapter 4 presents the committee's analysis of the role and scope of the NRI, including its scientific objectives, its value in training and education, and its complementarity with other research activities. The committee's analysis of NRI's priority-setting process and its research priorities is given in chapter 5. The committee's analysis of organizational and funding issues is given in chapter 6. Chapter 7 presents the committee's recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the NRI program. Additional supporting materials are found in appendixes A through I.
Author: Jeanne Nienaber Clarke
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791429457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original approach to the study of bureaucratic behavior that formulates a model of agency power supported by analysis of seven federal natural resource agencies.
Author: William E. Nothdurft
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1328
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Published: 1978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Burton
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781088387085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years state wildlife agencies have begun to realize the need to build collaborations and partnerships among their constituents in order to further their conservation goals. This has been done through a variety of avenues including grant programs such as the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' (MI DNR) wildlife habitat grant programs, which continue to provide funds to government, profit and non-profit organizations to develop land for wildlife habitat. Regarding grant programs facilitating partnerships, there has been no systematic assessment of whether this is a successful method to do so. The goal of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of the MI DNR grant programs in building relationships. In this work, a social network analysis was conducted to assess the nature of partnerships among grant receiving and non-grant receiving conservation organizations. A selection model approach was used to determine what characteristics were driving the partnerships of this network. The outcome variable being modeled was support received from a partner. The results delivered visualizations of the network and insight into why these organizations were selecting one another as partners. Major driving forces in partnership selection were found to be grants, the scale of management, having received prior support and distance between organizations. This valuable information will serve as a platform to better understand the networks surrounding wildlife conservation and allow the MI DNR to address any shortcomings and gaps within the partnership network.
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas A. Burke
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 194
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