Abstract

Within forest planning and management, collaboration has becoming increasingly widespread. Many collaborative projects take place over long time periods, and thus personnel turnover is inevitable within these groups. Scholars from the fields of business and organizational science have long studied strategies that organizations can use to prepare for and address turnover successfully. We draw from that literature and use it to examine the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), a federal program aimed at bringing diverse stakeholders together to address the increasing costs, severity, and prevalence of wildfires in the United States. We conducted qualitative analysis of interviews, archival documents, and memos to explore what strategies are used within CFLRP groups to address turnover. We discuss our findings in light of the existing literature from business and organizational science and present insights about which strategies may be adaptable to collaborative natural resource management and which may require further research to assess their applicability to collaborative groups.

中文翻译：

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“他们不断循环”：关于周转和森林合作规划的经验教训

摘要

在森林规划和管理中，协作已变得越来越普遍。许多协作项目需要很长时间才能完成，因此在这些群体中人员流动​​是不可避免的。商业和组织科学领域的学者们长期研究了组织可以用来成功准备和解决营业额的策略。我们从这些文献中提取资料，并用它来研究森林景观协作计划（CFLRP），这是一项联邦计划，旨在将各种利益相关者召集在一起，以解决美国野火的成本不断增加，程度日益严重和蔓延的情况。我们对采访，档案文件和备忘录进行了定性分析，以探讨在CFLRP小组中使用哪些策略来解决更替。