GOVERNMENTS
The GSA contract allows federal agencies to order specific work from JKA without the time consuming process of bidding each contract.
The Partnership Series is a community based stewardship training program run under the auspices of the Bureau of Land Management, National Training Center. JKA and the Partnership Series have collaborated for over 10 years.
Governments have mandates to protect the "public health, welfare and safety" of their citizens. This is often successfully done through promoting public participation in policy questions that create responsive governance. Yet this seemingly simple mandate has been difficult to fulfill. Government approaches to citizen involvement are addicted to a formal meeting format in trying to understand public interests. This seldom represents more than 2% of the people and the interests of the "98%ers" that never come to meetings are missed! Our process is designed to reach those 98%.
Over the years we have discovered that there is often a disconnect between the formal institutions of society, represented by various government units, and the informal networks of society within which everyday people try to predict, participate in and control their environment in a manner that makes their lives productive and fulfilling.
Our Social Ecology approach to governance and policy development uses the Discovery Process™ to understand through face-to-face contact with people what is happening in a community. We seek to comprehend the impact of changes taking place in the community and how the citizens are managing those changes. The Issue Management Process™ fosters alignment between the informal interests ("citizen issues") and formal interests ("management concerns") to create mutual learning and action. The result is that both the formal and informal systems are made more resilient, creating capacity to absorb and manage change.
The Social Ecology of Natural Resource Management
Community Forestry:
Community Forestry in the Illinois Valley, Oregon
- Social Assessment: Interests and Issues of Illinois Valley Residents Regarding Public Land Management
- The Illinois Valley Landscape Assessment
Mapping and Data Assessment - Illinois Valley Landscape Assessment Brochure
- The Page Creek Community Forestry Management Plan
The Bureau of Land Management:
- Services Package of James Kent Associates for Natural Resource Agencies, 2013
- JKA Company Activities with BLM Between 1995 and 2012
- A Regional Social Assessment of Eastern Washington to Assist Planning Effort of BLM Spokane District
- Community Assessment in the Baker Resource Area, Baker City, Oregon
- Community Assessment for the Central Oregon Resource Area (CORA)
- Social Considerations in the Yuma Field Office
- Planning in the Southern Bradshaw Mountains with the Phoenix Field Office
- Case Study in Farmington, New Mexico
U.S. Forest Service:
- A Field Guide to the Social Ecology of the Willamette Valley (Willamette National Forest)
- Cultural Attachment: Assessment of Impacts to Living Culture (George Washington National Forest)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife:
U.S. Department of Defense:
- Relocating the Marine Corps
- Restoring Watershed Health: Peacetime Military Contributions and Federalwide Agency Implications
- Hawaii and Guam: Strategic Convergence Zones for the United States Forward Defense Strategy in the Pacific Rim
Local Governments:
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