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Cross-Park RAD Project (CPRP): A Case Study in Four National Parks Investigating How Institutional Context and Emotions Shape Manager Decisions to Resist, Accept, or Direct Change in Transforming Ecosystems

How manager perceptions and emotions shape RAD decisions and responses to ecological transformation: A cross-case study in four National Parks
Principal Investigator
Amanda E Cravens

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Start Date
2022-09-01
Release Date
2022
End Date
2025-12-31

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Natural & cultural resource managers are facing a slew of new challenges for managing public lands stemming from climate change and human-driven stressors like invasive species, fragmentation, and new resource uses. In some cases, the very landscapes and species they are managing are changing in significant ways, transforming from one set of conditions to another. As a result, previously successful management strategies may become less effective, or in some cases ineffective. New and transforming conditions leave managers in a bind on how to respond to transforming public lands and natural resources. On the most basic level managers have three choices of how to respond: resist change, accept change, or direct change (RAD). These difficult [...]

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“Easy Pass in North Cascades National Park in summer. Credits Autumn Carlsen, NPS”
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Easy Pass in North Cascades National Park in summer. Credits Autumn Carlsen, NPS
Easy Pass in North Cascades National Park in summer. Credits Autumn Carlsen, NPS

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • North Central CASC

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