Leaping Forwards, Bouncing Forwards, or Just Bouncing Back: Resilience in Environmental Public Agencies Through after the Austerity Decade.
Environ Manage
; 70(5): 697-709, 2022 11.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2007132
ABSTRACT
The resilience of public environmental agencies is an important but broadly under-researched discourse. This paper addresses this lacuna by drawing on a three-part typology of resilience from organizational studies and applying it to the English natural environment agency, Natural England, following a decade of public sector agency de-funding under the aegis of austerity. The research question was explored qualitatively through eleven semi-structured interviews with the senior management team of Natural England during the summer of 2020. The findings suggest that public agency multi-functionality equate to heterogenous resilience across agency functions; that generally agency resilience (as a function of capacities) is poor with consequences upon good governance; and that they are broadly poorly positioned for the aftermath of Covid-19. The findings speak directly to the regulatory and organizational literatures with public administration by evidencing the complex realities of understanding resiliencies in large multi-functional public environmental agencies.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Organizational Culture
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Public Sector
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Environment
Type of study:
Observational study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Environ Manage
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S00267-022-01701-z
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