Alberto Guerreiro Ramos: the “in-betweener” as intellectual bridge builder?

Ao final de uma longa carreira, Alberto Guerreiro Ramos procurou reconceituar a ciência das organizações, para que ela reconhecesse as dimensões não econômicas da vida humana associada. Seu esforço repercutiu pouco, como se argumenta neste artigo, porque a sua influência fora do Brasil foi razoavelmente menor. Contudo, este fato não ocorreu devido a uma carência intelectual de sua parte. Ao contrário, na América do Norte, onde Alberto Guerreiro Ramos realizou o que ele pensou ser o seu mais importante trabalho, o meio intelectual era, ao mesmo tempo, limitado em termos paradigmáticos e culturalmente insular

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Public Involvement in the Immigration Plan for the Nanji Islands, China

Public involvement, Civic education, China, Immigration, Policy implementation,

From Partnerships to Networks: New Approaches for Measuring U.S. National Heritage Area Effectiveness

National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are an alternative and increasingly popular form of protected area management in the United States. NHAs seek to integrate environmental objectives with community and economic objectives at regional or landscape scales. NHA designations have increased rapidly in the last 20 years, generating a substantial need for evaluative information about (a) how NHAs work; (b) outcomes associated with the NHA process; and (c) the costs and benefits of investing public moneys into the NHA approach. Qualitative evaluation studies recently conducted at three NHAs have identified the importance of understanding network structure and function in the context of evaluating NHA management effectiveness. This article extends these case studies by examining quantitative network data from each of the sites. The authors analyze these data using both a descriptive approach and a statistically more robust approach known as exponential random graph modeling. Study findings indicate the presence of transitive structures and the absence of three-cycle structures in each of these networks. This suggests that these networks are relatively ‘‘open,’’ which may be desirable, given the uncertainty of the environments in which they operate. These findings also suggest, at least at the sites reported here, that the NHA approach may be an effective way to activate and develop networks of intersectoral organizational partners. Finally, this study demonstrates the utility of using quantitative network analysis to better understand the effectiveness of protected area management models that rely on partnership networks to achieve their intended outcomes.national heritage areas; protected area management; landscape-scale conservation; evaluation; social network analysis