Canada's Strategic Capacity for Sustainable Management of Military Lands

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dc.contributor.advisorGates, Dr. Cormack
dc.contributor.authorBoyd, Delaney Peta
dc.contributor.committeememberHerremans, Dr. Irene
dc.contributor.committeememberTyler, Dr. Mary-Ellen
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-02T21:21:28Z
dc.date.available2016-05-02T21:21:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractSustainable land management (SLM) is a system of policies, institutional structures, planning processes, and practices that integrate ecological, socio-economic, and political principles in the management of land to achieve intra- and intergenerational equity of land values and services. Increasing recognition of the ecological value of military lands has resulted in military organizations in many nations incorporating environmental aspects into their land management policies and practices. The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) manages 21,400 km2 of federal land in Canada for diverse land uses. This requires capacity to make consistent and informed decisions to achieve sustainability objectives on the basis of sophisticated land management plans. Capacity refers to an organization’s ability to perform tasks, identify and solve problems, achieve goals, and learn through integrated application of the values, powers, resources, skills, systems, structures, and processes that together confer various political, managerial, and technical capabilities. Organizational capacity operates at strategic, operational, and tactical levels. The purpose of this research was to assess Canada’s strategic capacity for sustainable management of military lands. Extensive review and synthesis of literature enabled the design of a unifying conceptual model of an SLM system. This model informed the development of an evaluative framework using specific criteria for grading organizational capacity for SLM. The evaluative framework was applied to assess the strategic capacity of DND to manage its lands sustainably. DND exhibited considerable capacity for legitimate governance embedded in a comprehensive legislative and policy context, but demonstrated weaknesses in sustainability planning capability, policy effectiveness, and institutional commitment to SLM. DND stands to benefit from further capacity development to promote organizational growth, integration of environmental conservation into its core business, and balanced management of lands it uses in the public interest. I proposed several management and research recommendations for improving capacity for managing military lands in Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBoyd, D. P. (2016). Canada's Strategic Capacity for Sustainable Management of Military Lands (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25195en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25195
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2928
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyEnvironmental Design
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectCanadian Studies
dc.subjectPublic Administration
dc.subjectRange Management
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectEnvironmental Sciences
dc.subject.classificationsustainable land managementen_US
dc.subject.classificationorganizational capacity evaluationen_US
dc.subject.classificationmilitary landsen_US
dc.subject.classificationDepartment of National Defenceen_US
dc.subject.classificationCanadaen_US
dc.titleCanada's Strategic Capacity for Sustainable Management of Military Lands
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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