How employees think about and act upon sustainability is important for public natural-resource agencies. We analyzed survey data from 8,875 USDA Forest Service employees to assess their knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and perceived opportunities and constraints for promoting broadly defined sustainability. Most survey respondents considered promoting sustainability important to Forest Service’s work, particularly to on-the-ground natural-resource management and planning. They recognized the interconnectedness between promoting sustainability and addressing climate change, and viewed it important to incorporate sustainability into what they were doing rather than developing new initiatives. These results highlight an opportunity for promoting sustainability as a unifying framework for Forest Service’s diverse work. To do so requires the cultivation of an agency-wide shared vision of the interconnectedness between sustainability, climate change, and the management and conservation of natural resources. This further requires efforts to enhance leadership commitment, sustainability-oriented social norms, and mechanisms for peer-to-peer exchange, learning, and support.

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促进公共自然资源机构的可持续性：美国农业部森林服务局的见解

员工如何思考可持续发展并采取行动对公共自然资源机构至关重要。我们分析了来自8,875名美国农业部森林服务局员工的调查数据，以评估他们的知识，态度，行为以及可感知的机会和限制，以促进广泛定义的可持续性。大多数受访者认为，促进可持续发展对森林服务局的工作特别是对地面自然资源管理和规划至关重要。他们认识到促进可持续性与应对气候变化之间的相互联系，并认为将可持续性纳入他们正在做的事情中而不是制定新举措很重要。这些结果突出了促进可持续发展的机会，将其作为森林服务业多样化工作的统一框架。为此，需要在全机构范围内培养对可持续性，气候变化与自然资源的管理与保护之间的相互联系的共同愿景。这进一步需要努力来增强领导力承诺，面向可持续性的社会规范以及对等交流，学习和支持的机制。